श्रीभगवानुवाच
14.22 प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति
śrī bhagavān uvāca
prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca moham
Word meanings
prakāśham—illumination;cha—and;pravṛittim—activity;cha—and;moham—delusion;eva—even;cha—and;pāṇḍava—Arjun, the son of Pandu;na dveṣhṭi—do not hate;sampravṛittāni—when present;na—nor;nivṛittāni—when absent;kāṅkṣhati—longs
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The Bhagavat said, "O son of Pandu! He neither abhors nor craves for illumination, exertion, and delusion, as and when they arise or cease to be."
Lord Shri Krishna replied: O Prince! He who shuns not the Quality which is present, and longs not for that which is absent;
The Lord said He hates not illumination, nor activity nor even delusion, O Arjuna, while these prevail, nor longs for them when they cease.
The Blessed Lord said O son of Pandu, he neither dislikes illumination (knowledge), activity and delusion when they appear, nor does he long for them when they disappear.
Light, activity and delusion,–when they are present, O Arjuna, he hates not, nor does he long for them when they are absent!
14.24 समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः
sama
Word meanings
sama—alike;duḥkha—distress;sukhaḥ—happiness;sva-sthaḥ—established in the self;sama—equally;loṣhṭa—a clod;aśhma—stone;kāñchanaḥ—gold;tulya—of equal value;priya—pleasant;apriyaḥ—unpleasant;dhīraḥ—steady;tulya—the same;nindā—blame;ātma-sanstutiḥ—praise
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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To whom pain, pleasure, and sleep are all the same; to whom a cold, a stone, and a lump of gold are all the same; to whom both the pleasant and unpleasant things are equal; who is firm-minded; to whom blame and personal commendation are equal.
Who accepts pain and pleasure as it comes, is centred in his Self, to whom a piece of clay or stone or gold are the same, who neither likes nor dislikes, who is steadfast, indifferent alike to praise or censure;
He who is alike in pleasure and pain, who dwells in his self, who looks upon a clod, a stone and piece of gold as of equal value, who remains the same towards things dear and hateful and who is intelligent, who regards both blame and praise of himself as equal;
He to whom sorrow and happiness are alike, who is established in his own Self, to whom a lump of earth, iron and gold are the same, to whom the agreeable and the disagreeable are the same, who is wise, to whom censure and his own praise are the same;
Alike in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, stone and gold are alike, to whom the dear and the unfriendly are alike, firm, the same in censure and praise,
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गुणत्रयविभागयोग
Chapter 14: Tell Apart the Three Gunas
guṇatrayavibhāgayoga
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14.23 उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते।गुणा वर्तन्त इत्येव योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते
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Word meanings
udāsīna-vat—neutral;āsīnaḥ—situated;guṇaiḥ—to the modes of material nature;yaḥ—who;na—not;vichālyate—are disturbed;guṇāḥ—modes of material nature;vartante—act;iti-evam—knowing it in this way;yaḥ—who;avatiṣhṭhati—established in the self;na—not;iṅgate—wavering
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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He who, sitting like an unconcerned person, is not perturbed by the strands; who is ignorant of the existence of the strands; or who remains simply aware that the strands alone exist; who is not shaken;
He who maintains an attitude of indifference, who is not disturbed by the Qualities, who realises that it is only they who act, and remains calm;
He who sits like one unconcerned, undisturbed by the Gunas; who knows, 'It is the Gunas that move,' and so rests unshaken;
He who, sitting like one indifferent, is not distracted by the three qualities; he who, thinking that the qualities alone act, remains firm and surely does not move;
He who, seated like one unconcerned, is not moved by the qualities, and who, knowing that the qualities are active, is self-centred and moves not,
