5.20 न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः
na prahṛṣyetpriyaṃ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam | sthirabuddhirasammūḍho brahmavidbrahmaṇi sthitaḥ
Word meanings
na—neither;prahṛiṣhyet—rejoice;priyam—the pleasant;prāpya—obtaining;na—nor;udvijet—become disturbed;prāpya—attaining;cha—also;apriyam—the unpleasant;sthira-buddhiḥ—steady intellect;asammūḍhaḥ—firmly situated;brahma-vit—having a firm understanding of divine knowledge;brahmaṇi—established in God;sthitaḥ—situated
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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My Personal Gita
The one who knows Brahman, who is disillusioned, established in Brahman, and has a firm intellect, would neither rejoice upon meeting a friend nor get agitated upon meeting a foe.
He who knows and lives in the Absolute remains unmoved and unperturbed; he is not elated by pleasure or depressed by pain.
He who knows Brahman (individual self) and abides in Brahman, whose mind is steadfastly on the self and undeluded by the body consciousness - he neither rejoices at gaining what is pleasant, nor grieves on obtaining what is unpleasant.
A knower of Brahman, who is established in Brahman, should have his intellect steady and should not be deluded. He should not get delighted by getting what is desirable, nor become dejected by getting what is undesirable.
Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect, undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoiceth on obtaining what is pleasant nor grieveth on obtaining what is unpleasant.
