Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 - JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 22

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

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1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 4 -JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 22

ANDAL

Yadrccha labha santushtah dvandva ati itah vimatsarah I

Samah siddhau asiddhau cha krutva api na nibadhyate II sloka 22

यद्र्च्छा लाभ संतुष्टः द्वन्द्व अति इतः विमत्सरः ।

समः सिद्धौ असिद्धौ च कृत्वा अपि न निबध्यते ।। श्लोक २२ 

Content with what he obtains without effort, free from the pairs of opposites, without envy, balanced in success and failure, though acting, he is not bound.

Egoism prompts the action bound man to exert himself for the procurement of his bodily needs. An attitude of this type is born of ignorance. But a spiritual aspirant is he who is not obsessed with the thought of bodily sustenance. Providence provides for him who is attuned to the super mundane. The aspirant is therefore content with what comes to him unsought. Happenings such as success and failure, honour and dishonour are the pairs of opposites. He is not affected by any of these happenings. Whatever falls to his lot, he accepts as divine dispensation. A worldling becomes envious of the prosperity of his neighbour; but the sadhaka is free from that canker. He is, instead, happy over the prosperity of the world. A man of this frame of mind is not bound by karma in the midst of his being tghtly engaged in it.