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Krishna

5.20 न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः

na prahṛṣyetpriyaṃ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam | sthirabuddhirasammūḍho brahmavidbrahmaṇi sthitaḥ

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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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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

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.

Shri Purohit Swami

He who knows and lives in the Absolute remains unmoved and unperturbed; he is not elated by pleasure or depressed by pain.

Swami Adidevananda

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.

Swami Gambirananda

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.

Swami Sivananda

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.

Krishna

5.22 ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते। आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः

ye hi saṃsparśajā bhogā duḥkhayonaya eva te | ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ

Word meanings

ye—which;hi—verily;sansparśha-jāḥ—born of contact with the sense objects;bhogāḥ—pleasures;duḥkha—misery;yonayaḥ—source of;eva—verily;te—they are;ādya-antavantaḥ—having beginning and end;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;na—never;teṣhu—in those;ramate—takes delight;budhaḥ—the wise

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

The enjoyments that arise from contact [with objects] are nothing but sources of misery, having both a beginning and an end. Therefore, an intelligent person does not take delight in them, O son of Kunti!

Shri Purohit Swami

The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginning and their endings. The wise man does not rejoice in them.

Swami Adidevananda

For those pleasures that are born of contact are wombs or pain. They have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna. The wise do not rejoice in them.

Swami Gambirananda

Since enjoyments that result from contact (with objects) are verily the sources of sorrow and have a beginning and an end, (therefore) O son of Kunti, the wise one does not delight in them.

Swami Sivananda

The enjoyments that are born of contacts are generators of pain only, for they have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna! The wise do not rejoice in them.

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5.21 बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्। स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते

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bāhya-sparśheṣhu—external sense pleasure;asakta-ātmā—those who are unattached;vindati—find;ātmani—in the self;yat—which;sukham—bliss;saḥ—that person;brahma-yoga yukta-ātmā—those who are united with God through yog;sukham—happiness;akṣhayam—unlimited;aśhnute—experiences

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

He who, with his mind not attached to external contacts, finds happiness in the Self—that person, with his mind engaged in Yoga, easily pervades the Brahman, suffering no loss.

Shri Purohit Swami

He finds happiness in his own Self, and enjoys eternal bliss, whose heart does not yearn for the contacts of earth and whose Self is one with the Everlasting.

Swami Adidevananda

He whose mind is detached from external contact, and finds happiness in the self - he has his mind engaged in the contemplation of Brahman and he enjoys undecaying bliss.

Swami Gambirananda

With his heart unattached to external objects, he gets the bliss that is in the Self. With his heart absorbed in meditation on Brahman, he acquires undecaying Bliss.

Swami Sivananda

With the self unattached to the external contacts he discovers happiness in the Self; with the self engaged in the meditation of Brahman he attains to the endless happiness.