Jitatmanah Prashantasya

What happens when the mind is conquered and inner calm takes hold? Krishna answers: the Paramatma — the Supreme Self — settles firmly in the heart of that person. Cold does not disturb them. Heat does not disturb them. Pleasure does not send them soaring. Pain does not break them. Praise does not inflate them. Insult does not crush them.

This is not numbness or indifference. It is a stability that comes from being anchored to something deeper than circumstances. The weather of life keeps changing — seasons of comfort, seasons of hardship — but the person rooted in the Supreme Self stands steady through all of it.

An old tree by the river has seen floods and droughts. Its roots go deep enough that neither one uproots it. That depth of root is what jitatma provides — and the Paramatma is the soil it reaches.

This verse describes the reward of self-mastery. In 6.6, Krishna said: conquer the mind. In 6.7, he reveals what that conquest yields — the firm presence of the Supreme Self within. Equanimity is the visible sign of that presence.

Samata — equal-mindedness — is a central theme of the Gita. In Chapter 2 (2.14-2.15), Krishna said that one who endures heat and cold alike becomes worthy of immortality. Verse 6.7 returns to that same principle at a deeper level.