📿 Shloka Collection

Yadrichchhalabhasantushto

Gita 4.22 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4 — Gyana Karma Sannyasa Yoga
यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः ।
समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते ॥
Yadrichchha-labha-santushto dvandvatito vimatrsarah
Samah siddhav asiddhau cha kritvapi na nibadhyate
यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टः
content with whatever comes on its own
द्वन्द्वातीतः
beyond the pairs of opposites
विमत्सरः
free from envy
समः
even-minded
सिद्धौ
in success
असिद्धौ
in failure
and
कृत्वा
even after doing
अपि
even
न निबध्यते
is not bound

Content with whatever life brings without asking. Beyond the tug of opposites — pleasure and pain, praise and blame, heat and cold. Free from envy. Even-minded whether the day ends in success or failure. Such a person acts in the world and yet remains unbound, the way a bird glides through open sky without leaving a trace.

This is not indifference. It is a settled fullness that does not depend on external outcomes. When a person's inner contentment comes from within, the ups and downs of life lose their power to shake the foundation.

Shlokas 4.19 through 4.22 together form a complete portrait of the gyana yogi: desireless, content, equal-minded, unattached, free of envy.

The next shloka (4.23) summarizes this entire section: when action is performed as yajna (offering), all karma dissolves entirely.

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