The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 56
Dukhasve anuda vignamanah sukheshu vigataspruhah I
Vitaraga bhaya krodhah athitadhir munir uchyate II sloka 56
दुखेषु अनुद विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः ।
वीतराग भय क्रोधः अथितधिः मुनिः उच्यते ।। श्लोक ५६
He whose mind is not perturbed by adversity, who does not crave for happiness, who is free from fondness, fear & anger, is the muni of constant wisdom
There is no end to events in this world, which come as trials and tribulations to man. The way of the ordinary is to be afflicted by them. But the man of wisdom remains unperturbed, viewing them as unavoidable but the effectless to the extent ignored. By adding fuel to fire its volume and intensity increases. Desire for happiness increases similarly in a worldly man but never in a jnani. In the midst of an ever increasing number of objects of happiness, he lives entirely unconcerned by them. He is further free from fondness, fear and anger. These 3 traits tarnish the mind. Fondness is attachment which robs the aspirant of discrimination. Man fails to see defects in those he is fond of. Detached love is what is wanted. Man is not fond of poisonous snakes but he fears it. Fear is born of ignorance; it deprives man of manliness; it is worse than death. Fearlessness is the message of the Upanishads. The jnani is fears nothing including death. Practice of fearlessness is imperative for not only the seeker of wisdom but also for all who want to thrive in life. Bhima the brother immediately elder to Arjuna is not at all attached to the Kauravas and in no way afraid of them; but he was bitterly angry with them. Anger unbecomes an ethically and spiritually evolving one. It robs one of discrimination. The mind that is free from attachment, fear and anger evolves in excellence. The Brahma jnani is necessarily established in these virtues.
Muni is he whose mind delights in the self as steadily and uninterruptedly as the unbroken flow of oil poured from its container.
The man given to envy, anger and timidity never grows in spiritual stature
Sri Ramakrishna Paraahamsa
How the man of wisdom contact the external world is given in the next sloka
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