Sanskrit · Devanagari
सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ। ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
sukhaduḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṃ pāpamavāpsyasi
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Looking alike on pleasure and pain, on gain and loss, on victory and defeat, then prepare for battle, and thus you will not incur sin.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.38।। सुखदुःखे समे तुल्ये कृत्वा रागद्वेषावप्यकृत्वेत्येतत्। तथा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ च समौ कृत्वा ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व घटस्व। न एवं युद्धं कुर्वन् पापम् अवाप्स्यसि । इत्येष उपदेशः प्रासङ्गिकः।।शोकमोहापनयनाय लौकिको न्यायः स्वधर्ममपि चावेक्ष्य इत्याद्यैः श्लोकैरुक्तः न तु तात्पर्येण। परमार्थदर्शनमिह प्रकृतम्। तच्चोक्तमुपसंह्रियते एषा तेऽभिहिता (गीता 2.39) इति शास्त्रविषयविभागप्रदर्शनाय। इह हि प्रदर्शिते पुनः शास्त्रविषयविभागे उपरिष्टात् ज्ञानयोगेन सांख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् इति निष्ठाद्वयविषयं शास्त्रं सुखं प्रवर्तिष्यते श्रोतारश्च विषयविभागेन सुखं ग्रहीष्यन्ति इत्यत आह
a3e497666d99…Rāmānuja
2.38 Thus, knowing the self to be eternal, different from the body and untouched by all corporeal alities, remaining unaffected by pleasure and pain resulting from the weapon-strokes etc., inevitable in a war, as also by gain and loss of wealth, victory and defeat, and keeping yourself free from attachment to heaven and such other frutis, begin the battle considering it merely as your own duty. Thus, you will incur no sin. Here sin means transmigratory existence which is misery. The purport is that you will be liberarted from the bondage of transmigratory existence. Thus, after teaching the knowledge of the real nature of the self, Sri Krsna begins to expound the Yoga of work, which, when preceded by it (i.e., knowledge of the self), constitutes the means for liberation.
b50efacd6807…Swami Sivananda
2.38 सुखदुःखे pleasure and pain? समे same? कृत्वा having made? लाभालाभौ gain and loss? जयाजयौ victory and defeat? ततः then? युद्धाय for battle? युज्यस्व engage thou? न not? एवम् thus? पापम् sin? अवाप्स्यसि shalt incur.Commentary This is the Yoga of eanimity or the doctrine of poise in action. If anyone does any action with the above mental attitude or balanced state of mind he will not reap the fruits of his action. Such an action will lead to the purification of his heart and freedom from birth and death. One has to develop such a balanced state of mind through continous struggle and vigilant efforts.
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