Chapter 5: Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Yoga of Inner Renunciation: Verse 20
न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम् ।
स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थित: ॥
na prahṛṣyet-priyaṃ prāpya nodvijet-prāpya cāpriyam
sthira-buddhir-asammūḍho brahmavid-brahmaṇi sthita: – 5.20
Delight not unduly on meeting the pleasant, nor be aggrieved by the unpleasant. By being so, with stable intelligence, freed of delusion, knowing Brahman well, abide in Brahman.
Chapter 5: Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Yoga of Inner Renunciation - Verse 20
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna explains again how one wins over the world by making his mind harmonious in daily interactional life. Here also he is quite secular in the disciplines he lays down. See how Gita embraces one and all, without distinction of sex, nationality, race or otherwise.
Mind incessantly generates the alternates of delight and depression, while interacting with persons, places and events, at home, in professional or societal fronts. In this, the individual remains the same, other factors alone are variable. Focussing attention on oneself is interactional sādhanā. It is a paradigm shift.
The only niṣṭhā is to have a uniform, even attitude towards sukha-duḥkhas. Do not exult or be aggrieved any time. The world can only offer pleasant-unpleasant alternates. So, sādhanā becomes irresistible, ceaseless. Let the intelligence be firm, delusion-free. Inner equalness makes one abide in the equal Brahman.
