Chapter 2 · Knowledge of the Self
Bhagavad Gita 2.56
Untroubled in sorrow, without craving in joy.
Shri Bhagavan
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः ।
वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥
duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ / vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīrmunirucyate
Untroubled in sorrow, without craving in happiness, free of longing, fear and anger — such a person is called a sage of steady understanding.
हिंदी · जो दुःख में विचलित नहीं होता, सुख में जिसकी चाह नहीं रहती, और जो राग, भय और क्रोध से मुक्त है — वही स्थिर बुद्धि वाला मुनि कहा जाता है।
What it means
Untroubled in sorrow, without craving in joy.
One whose mind is not shaken by sorrow, who has no hunger for pleasure, who is free of attachment, fear and anger — that sage is called steady in wisdom.
This is the Trust’s own reading, written for this site. The verse above it is the text.
Verses that share its vocabulary
Near it in the text’s own words.
- 10.4Intelligence, knowledge, clarity free of delusion, forbearance, truth, restraint of the senses, calm of mind, pleasure and pain, coming to be and ceasing to be, fear and also fearlessness —
- 4.10Free of passion, fear and anger, filled with me and taking refuge in me, many have been purified by the discipline of knowledge and have come to my own being.
- 5.28The sage whose senses, mind and intellect are held in check, who has liberation as his one aim, and from whom desire, fear and anger have gone, is always free.
- 18.8Whoever abandons work merely as painful, from fear of bodily hardship, makes a relinquishment born of passion and gains none of its fruit.
- 5.23The man who can bear the force that rises from desire and anger here itself, before he is freed from the body, is a man of yoga, and he is happy.
- 2.14Kaunteya, contact with things brings cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and they go. They do not last. Bear them, Bharata.
Chosen by shared uncommon vocabulary, weighted so that a rare word counts for far more than a common one. A reading aid, not a claim that these verses mean the same thing.