Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 14 · The Three Qualities

    Verse 25

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 14, Verse 25

    मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः।सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते।।14.25।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    mānāpamānayos tulyas tulyo mitrāri-pakṣhayoḥ sarvārambha-parityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa uchyate

    Translation

    He who is the same in honor and dishonor, and the same to friend and foe, and who has abandoned all enterprises—he is said to have risen above the Gunas.
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