संस्कृत
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः । वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥
duḥkheṣv anudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīr munir ucyate
अनुवाद
He whose mind is free from anxiety amid pains, indifferent amid pleasures, loosed from passion, fear and anger, is called a sage of stable mind.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
व्याख्या
Answering Arjuna’s question from verse 54, Krishna opens the portrait with its classic threefold formula: undisturbed by pain, uncraving in pleasure, free of passion, fear, and anger. Together with verse 55’s abandonment of desire, this sets the emotional baseline the rest of the portrait builds on. Rāga, bhaya, krodha — attraction, fear, anger — are named as a set because they are a causal sequence: attraction thwarted becomes fear of loss, which becomes anger. The chain of ruin at BG 2.62 is this same list turned into a mechanism.
गहराई से अध्ययन करें
शब्द-दर-शब्द
- duḥkheṣv anudvignamanāḥदुःखेष्व् अनुद्विग्नमनाः
- unshaken in mind amid sorrows (duḥkheṣu + anudvigna-manāḥ)
- sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥसुखेषु विगतस्पृहः
- without longing amid pleasures (sukheṣu + vigata-spṛhaḥ)
- vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥवीतरागभयक्रोधः
- free of passion, fear, and anger (vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ)
- sthitadhīrस्थितधीः
- of steady mind (sthita-dhīḥ)
- munirमुनिः
- a sage
- ucyateउच्यते
- is called
टीका
Site Commentary
The threefold formula isn’t one flattened neutrality — undisturbed amid pain is endurance, indifferent amid pleasure is non-grasping, and these are two different postures aimed in opposite directions, not a single numbness applied evenly. The verse asks for two distinct skills, not one absence of feeling.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
Site Commentary — Second Reading
What’s being described is not an absence of reaction but the absence of a specific, common failure: a mood that tracks the last input received — a market dip, a curt message from a boss, a notification — as faithfully as a needle tracks a magnet. Most people don’t notice how thoroughly their stability is outsourced this way until someone points at the pattern directly, which is what sthitadhīḥ, “stable in understanding,” is naming by contrast. The verse isn’t asking for indifference to life; it’s naming the specific, ordinary dependency most people live inside without ever calling it that.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
अवधारणाएँ
इस श्लोक को अपनाएँ
पाठ
व्यक्तिगत
- Practice these as two separate skills, not one: withstand hard moments without flinching, and don't grasp at good moments when they arrive — they take different muscles, and conflating them into "feel less" misses both.
व्यावसायिक
- Absorb tough feedback without being destabilized, and don't get intoxicated by praise either — these are two distinct professional disciplines, and a team that's only built one of them is only half-steady.
परिवार और समाज
- Don't collapse during a hard stretch with family, and don't get carried away during a great one either — notice these are two separate habits to build, not one blanket detachment from feeling.
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