Chapter 4: Jñāna Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Renunciation of Actions through Enlightenment: Verse 22
यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सर: ।
सम: सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते ॥
yadṛcchālābha-santuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsara:
sama: siddhāvasiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate – 4.22
Content with whatever chance brings, rising above pairs of opposites, free of jealousy, equal in success and failure, one does not get bound by whatever he does.
Chapter 4: Jñāna Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Renunciation of Actions through Enlightenment - Verse 22
Ma Gurupriya
This is the fourth proposition of Krishna. Learn to be content with whatever chance brings from time to time. By such cultural attunement, you will have no problem with life or all it fetches. This means to be unaffected by whatever comes and goes.
Once you start greeting chance at every turn, dvandvas, pairs of opposites, will begin to subside. And mind will become placid, a gain otherwise hard and unattainable even for the most intelligent and prosperous.
Such a spiritually enriched mind will not foster any sense of jealousy towards anyone. Contentment and inner abundance fill the mind so much, that it does not pick up any new aspiration for anything here or hereafter.
Such a mind will always preserve evenness towards activities and the results that follow. There will be no scope for elation-depression undulations at all.
