Bhagavad Gita 5.20न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्।स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः ॥
na prahṛiṣhyet priyaṁ prāpya nodvijet prāpya
chāpriyam sthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Peace of the one who knows · 5.13–5.29 · Teaching
Translation
Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoices upon obtaining what is pleasant nor grieves upon obtaining what is unpleasant.
Hindi translation
जो प्रियको प्राप्त होकर हर्षित न हो और अप्रियको प्राप्त होकर उद्विग्न न हो, वह स्थिर बुद्धिवाला, मूढ़तारहित तथा ब्रह्मको जाननेवाला मनुष्य ब्रह्ममें स्थित है।
Meaning
This is the state of a Jivanmukta or a liberated sage or a Brahmana who identifies himself with the Self or Atman. He always has a balanced mind. He is never deluded. He has abandoned all actions as he rests in Brahman. He who has an unbalanced mind, who identifies himself with the body and mind feels pleasure and pain, exhilaration of spirits when he gets a pleasant object and grief when he obtains an unpleasant object. (Cf.VI.21,27,28XIII.12XIV.20)
After Swami Sivananda
Peace of the one who knows· 5.13–5.29→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 5.13Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests…
- 5.14Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits…
- 5.15The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by…
- 5.16But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun,…
- 5.17Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as…
- 5.18Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow,…
- 5.19Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is…
5.20Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither…
- 5.21With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the…
- 5.22The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning…
- 5.23He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of…
- 5.24He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi…
- 5.25The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their…
- 5.26Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from…
- 5.27Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the…
- 5.28With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme…
- 5.29He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the…
Word-by-word→
- na
- nor
- cha
- also
- priyam
- the pleasant
- apriyam
- the unpleasant
- prāpya
- attaining
- udvijet
- become disturbed
- sthitaḥ
- situated
- brahma-vit
- having a firm understanding of divine knowledge
- brahmaṇi
- established in God
- asammūḍhaḥ
- firmly situated
- prahṛiṣhyet
- rejoice
- sthira-buddhiḥ
- steady intellect
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