Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

    Verse 22

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 4, Verse 22

    यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः। समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते।।4.22।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    yadṛichchhā-lābha-santuṣhṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ samaḥ siddhāvasiddhau cha kṛitvāpi na nibadhyate

    Translation

    Content with what chance may bring, rising above the pairs of opposites, free from ill-will, even-minded in success and failure, he acts, yet is not bound.
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