Sanskrit · Devanagari
यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ। समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
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yaṃ hi na vyathayantyete puruṣaṃ puruṣarṣabha samaduḥkhasukhaṃ dhīraṃ so.amṛtatvāya kalpate
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Bear them, O descendant of Bharata! For, O chief of men! that sensible man whom they (pain and pleasure being alike to him) afflict not, he merits immortality.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.15।। यं हि पुरुषं समे दुःखसुखे यस्य तं समदुःखसुखं सुखदुःखप्राप्तौ हर्षविषादरहितं धीरं धीमन्तं न व्यथयन्ति न चालयन्ति नित्यात्मदर्शनाद् एते यथोक्ताः शीतोष्णादयः स नित्यात्मस्वरूपदर्शननिष्ठो द्वन्द्वसहिष्णुः अमृतत्वाय अमृतभावाय मोक्षायेत्यर्थः कल्पते समर्थो भवति।। इतश्च शोकमोहौ अकृत्वा शीतोष्णादिसहनं युक्तं यस्मात्
35ae206b9dec…Rāmānuja
2.15 That person endowed with courage, who considers pain as inevitable as pleasure, and who performs war and such other acts suited to his station in life without attachment to the results and only as a means of attaining immortality - one whom the impact of weapons in war etc., which involve soft or harsh contacts, do not trouble, that person only attains immortality, not a person like you, who cannnot bear grief. As the selves are immortal, what is to be done here, is this much only. This is the meaning. Because of the immortality of the selves and the natural destructibility of the bodies, there is no cause for grief. It was told (previously): 'The wise grieve neither for the dead nor for the living' (2. 11). Now the Lord elucidates the same view.
3ca4b5644d37…Swami Sivananda
2.15 यम् whom? हि surely? न व्यथयन्ति afflict not? एते these? पुरुषम् man? पुरुषर्षभ chief among men? समदुःखसुखम् same in pleasure and pain? धीरम् firm man? सः he? अमृतत्वाय for immortality? कल्पते is fit.Commentary -- Dehadhyasa or identification of the Self with the body is the cause of pleasure and pain. The more you are able to identify yourself with the immortal? allpervading Self? the less will you be affected by the pairs of opposites (Dvandvas? pleasure and pain? etc.)Titiksha or the power of endurance develops the willpower. Calm endurance in pleasure and pain? and heat and cold is one of the alifications of an aspirant on the path of Jnana Yoga. It is one of the Shatsampat or sixfold virtues. It is a condition of right knowledge. Titiksha by itself cannot give you Moksha or liberation? but still? when coupled with discrimination and dispassion? it becomes a means to the attainment of Immortality or knowledge of the Self. (Cf.XVII.53)
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