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न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद्ब्रह्मणि स्थितः।।5.20।।

na prahṛiṣhyet priyaṁ prāpya nodvijet prāpya chāpriyam sthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 5, Verse 20
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither rejoices upon obtaining what is pleasant nor grieves upon obtaining what is unpleasant.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: one who neither rejoices at what is pleasant nor is disturbed at what is unpleasant, with steady understanding, unconfused, knowing Brahman, is established in Brahman, restating the equanimity theme concretely in terms of pleasant and unpleasant events.

In life: the swing between elation at good news and despair at bad news is exhausting precisely because it's so automatic and unexamined.

Teaching: practice noticing the exact moment you start to swing emotionally with news, good or bad, and consciously moderate the swing rather than riding it fully each time.

naneither
prahṛiṣhyetrejoice
priyamthe pleasant
prāpyaobtaining
nanor
udvijetbecome disturbed
prāpyaattaining
chaalso
apriyamthe unpleasant
sthira-buddhiḥsteady intellect
asammūḍhaḥfirmly situated
brahma-vithaving a firm understanding of divine knowledge
brahmaṇiestablished in God
sthitaḥsituated

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
5.20 न not? प्रहृष्येत् should rejoice? प्रियम् the pleasant? प्राप्य having obtained? न not? उद्विजेत् should be troubled? प्राप्य having obtained? च and? अप्रियम् the unpleasant? स्थिरबुद्धिः one with steady intellect? असम्मूढः undeluded? ब्रह्मवित् knower of Brahman? ब्रह्मणि in Brahman? स्थितः established.Commentary This is the state of a Jivanmukta or a liberated sage or a Brahmana who identifies himself with the Self or Atman. He always has a balanced mind. He is never deluded. He has abandoned all actions as he rests in Brahman. He who has an unbalanced mind? who identifies himself with the body and mind feels pleasure and pain? exhilaration of spirits when he gets a pleasant object and grief when he obtains an unpleasant object. (Cf.VI.21?27?28XIII.12XIV.20)