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समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः।।14.24।।

sama-duḥkha-sukhaḥ sva-sthaḥ sama-loṣhṭāśhma-kāñchanaḥ tulya-priyāpriyo dhīras tulya-nindātma-sanstutiḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 14, Verse 24
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Who is the same in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, a stone, and gold are all alike, who is the same to the dear and the unfriendly, who is firm, and to whom censure and praise are one and the same.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: alike in pain and pleasure, self-abiding, alike in a lump of earth, a stone, and gold, the same to the desirable and undesirable, firm, and equal in praise and blame, continuing to describe this steadiness across the same familiar pairs of opposites the text keeps returning to.

In life: this repeated list of opposites across multiple chapters, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, keeps reappearing precisely because these are the genuinely recurring tests most people actually face throughout an ordinary life.

Teaching: keep using this same recurring list of opposites as your practical self-check across different life seasons, its repetition throughout the text is itself a signal that these are the genuinely persistent, real tests worth continually revisiting.

samaalike
duḥkhadistress
sukhaḥhappiness
sva-sthaḥestablished in the self
samaequally
loṣhṭaa clod
aśhmastone
kāñchanaḥgold
tulyaof equal value
priyapleasant
apriyaḥunpleasant
dhīraḥsteady
tulyathe same
nindāblame
ātma-sanstutiḥpraise

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
14.24 समदुःखसुखः alike in pleasure and pain? स्वस्थः standing in his own Self? समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः regarding a clod of earth? a stone and gold alike? तुल्यप्रियाप्रियः the same to the dear and the undear? धीरः firm? तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः the same in censure and praise. Commentary Night and day have no meaning to a post fixed in the ground. Even so pleasure and pain have no meaning to a sage who dwells in his own Self. He is above the pairs of opposites. In his eyes cowdung or gold? a jewel or a stone? are of eal value. He is free from the idea of,giving and taking. His mind is not perturbed by anything pleasant or unpleasant. He is the same towards agreeable and disagreeable things. Praise and censure cannot affect him. He stands adamant. He abides in his own essential state as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute. He is ever calm and serene. (Cf.V.18)