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अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः। भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः।।10.5।।

ahiṁsā samatā tuṣṭis tapo dānaṁ yaśo 'yaśaḥ bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṁ matta eva pṛthag-vidhāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 10, Verse 5
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame, and ill-fame - these different qualities of beings arise from Me alone.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: pleasure and pain, existence and non-existence, fear and fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, and charity, along with fame and infamy, all arise from Krishna alone, extending the same principle to cover difficult states as well as admirable ones.

In life: it's tempting to only credit yourself, or a higher purpose, for the pleasant states and disown the difficult ones as unrelated intrusions, but this verse treats both as coming from the same underlying source.

Teaching: try taking ownership of your difficult states, fear, discontent, the same way you'd take ownership of your admirable ones, both are genuinely part of the same underlying process, not separate categories.

ahiṁsānonviolence
samatāequilibrium
tuṣṭiḥsatisfaction
tapaḥpenance
dānamcharity
yaśaḥfame
ayaśaḥinfamy
bhavantibecome
bhāvāḥnatures
bhūtānāmof living entities
mattaḥfrom Me
evacertainly
pṛthakvidhāḥdifferently arranged.

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
10.5 अहिंसा noninjury? समता eanimity? तुष्टिः contentment? तपः austerity? दानम् beneficence? यशः fame? अयशः illfame? भवन्ति arise? भावाः alities? भूतानाम् of beings? मत्तः from Me? एव alone? पृथग्विधाः of different kinds. Commentary Ahimsa is noninjury to living beings in thought? word and deed. Samata is that state wherein there is neither Raga (like) nor Dvesha (dislike)? when one gets pleasant or unpleasant objects. There is neither exhilaration when one gets pleasant or favourable objects nor depressions when one gets unpleasant or unfavourable objects. Tushtih is satisfaction or contentment. The man of contentment is satisfied with whatever object he gets through Prarabdha. He is satisfied with his present acisitions. He is free from greed and so he has peace of mind. Contentment makes a man very rich. It annihilates greed. Greed makes even a rich man a beggar of beggars. A greedy man is ever restless. Tapas is restraint of the senses? with bodily mortification through the practice of fasting and slow reduction of food. The strength of the body and the senses is reduced through fasting.Danam is beneficence. It is sharing of ones own things with others according to ones own means? or distribution of rice? gold? cloth? etc.? to a worthy person? in a fit place and time? especially to one who can do nothign in return.Yasas is fame due to Dharma or virtuous actions.Ayasah is illfame or disgrace due to Adharma or sinful actions.All these different kinds of alities of living beings arise from Me alone? the great Lord of the worlds? according to their respective Karmas.