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समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः।शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः।।12.18।।

samaḥ śhatrau cha mitre cha tathā mānāpamānayoḥ śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu samaḥ saṅga-vivarjitaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 12, Verse 18
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
He who is the same to foe and friend, and also in honor and dishonor, who is the same in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain, and who is free from attachment.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: one who is the same to friend and foe, in honor and dishonor, in heat and cold, pleasure and pain, free from attachment, restating and consolidating the full list of opposites this chapter has repeatedly named as the actual test of steadiness.

In life: this consolidated list, friend and foe, honor and dishonor, heat and cold, pleasure and pain, is a genuinely useful, concrete checklist for auditing your own remaining areas of reactivity.

Teaching: use this exact list as a periodic self-check, going through each pair and honestly assessing whether your reaction still swings strongly with it or has actually steadied over time.

samaḥalike
śhatrauto a foe
chaand
mitreto a friend
cha tathāas well as
māna-apamānayoḥin honor and dishonor
śhīta-uṣhṇain cold and heat
sukha-duḥkheṣhuin joy and sorrow
samaḥequipoised
saṅga-vivarjitaḥfree from all unfavorable association

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
12.18 समः (he who is) the same? शत्रौ to foe? च and? मित्रे to friend? च and? तथा also? मानापमानयोः in honour and dishonour? शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु in cold and heat? in pleasure and pain? समः the same? सङ्गविवर्जितः free from attachment.Commentary The ordinary man of the world is ruled by the pairs of opposites? honour and dishonour? cold and heat and pleasure and pain but a Yogi or a sage or a devotee (Bhagavata) has a balanced mind. He has poise or eanimity. He is not at all swayed by the blind forces of attraction and repulsion.He who does wrong to others is a foe. He who does good to others is a friend.The devotee or the sage has no attachment for objects of any kind.