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Bhagavad Gita 2.15

The steady person who stays level in pain and pleasure becomes fit for immortality.

यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ।
समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥

yaṃ hi na vyathayanty ete puruṣaṃ puruṣarṣabha
samaduḥkhasukhaṃ dhīraṃ so 'mṛtatvāya kalpate

Translation

"Best of men, the steady person who is not troubled by these contacts, and for whom pain and pleasure are the same, becomes fit for immortality."

Hindi

"पुरुषश्रेष्ठ, जिस धीर पुरुष को ये स्पर्श विचलित नहीं करते और जिसके लिए दुःख और सुख समान हैं, वह अमरता के योग्य बन जाता है।"

Commentary

Equanimity is presented as a qualification, not a mood. The person who stays level in pain and pleasure is ready for amritatva, the deathless state that the tradition calls liberation (moksha). Krishna now explains what the deathless actually is, starting with 2.16.

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