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Equanimity and Satisfaction

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27
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3
Chapters
8

Equanimity (samatvam) and satisfaction (tuṣti) are emphasized in the Gītā as most essential qualities for a spiritual seeker. One needs to be tolerant and equipoised towards dualities with detachment and be satisfied with whatever comes of its own accord in life.

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Tolerance and Equanimity 11
  1. Duty needs to be performed with equanimity abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga. (2.48 samatvaṁ yoga ucyate)
  2. An equipoised devotee is eligible for liberation (2.15 yaṁ hi na vyathayanty..., 5.25)
  3. By being equipoised in dualities, one shall never incur sin (2.38 sukha-duḥkhe same kṛtvā...)
  4. A devotee sees a learned brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater with equal vision. (5.18 vidyā-vinaya-sampanne...)
  5. One attains the Supreme Lord by controlling senses and being equally disposed to everyone. (12.4 sanniyamyendriya-grāmaṁ...)
  6. An equipoised person regards alike all kinds of dualities (14.22-26, 6.7- 9, 2.56-57)
  7. People with equal vision conquer birth and death (5.19-20)
  8. The Lord considers an equipoised devotee as the topmost. (6.32 ātmaupamyena sarvatra...)
  9. One has to tolerate happiness and distress by understanding them as temporary like changing seasons (2.14 mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya...)
  10. Until death one must tolerate the urges of senses, desires and anger. (5.23 śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṁ...)
  11. Like an ocean that is still despite many rivers entering it, one should be undisturbed by the incessant flow of desires. (2.70 āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṁ...)
Satisfaction 7
  1. For a satisfied person, the threefold miseries don’t exist. (2.65 prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ...)
  2. There is no entanglement for one who is satisfied with gain that comes of its own accord. (4.22 yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo...)
  3. When one gives up all desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, finds satisfaction in the self alone. (2.55 prajahāti yadā kāmān...)
  4. For a self-satisfied person there is no prescribed duty. (3.17 tasmād asaktaḥ...)
  5. A self-satisfied person ultimately attains the Supreme. (5.24 yo 'ntaḥ-sukho...)
  6. Satisfaction is the quality that endears one to Lord Kṛṣṇa (12.14 santuṣṭaḥ satataṁ yogī, 12.19 santuṣṭo yena kenacit)
  7. A peaceful and satisfied devotee attains pure devotional service unto the Lord (18.54 ‘mad bhaktiṁ labhate parāṁ’)
Obstacles 1
  1. Uncontrolled mind and senses present various obstacles in cultivating equanimity, tolerance and satisfaction (See Thematic Compilation 5 in p.220)

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