Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
यः सर्वत्रानभिस्नेहस्तत्तत्प्राप्य शुभाशुभम् ।
नाभिनन्दति न द्वेष्टि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता ॥५७॥
yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas
tat tat prāpya śubhāśubham
nābhinandati na dveṣṭi
tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā
Word for word (synonyms)
- yaḥ
- one who
- sarvatra
- everywhere
- anabhisnehaḥ
- without affection
- tat
- that
- tat
- that
- prāpya
- achieving
- śubha
- good
- aśubham
- evil
- na
- never
- abhinandati
- prays
- na
- never
- dveṣṭi
- envies
- tasya
- his
- prajñā
- perfect knowledge
- pratiṣṭhita
- fixed
Translation
He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.
Defined in the Gītā
Knowledge
What is knowledge?
Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance.
Purport
There is always some upheaval in the material world which may be good or evil. One who is not agitated by such material upheavals, who is unaffected by good and evil, is to be understood to be fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As long as one is in the material world there is always the possibility of good and evil because this world is full of duality. But one who is fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not affected by good and evil because he is simply concerned with Kṛṣṇa, who is all good absolute. Such consciousness in Kṛṣṇa situates one in a perfect transcendental position called, technically, samādhi.
What this verse teaches
[A2] Sthita-prajña’s response to dualities (speech)
- Gita for Life
- Success and failure
In thematic compilations 1
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 2
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.55–58 1966-04-13 · New York
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.46-62 1968-12-16
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.