Sanskrit · Devanagari
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥
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duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīrmunirucyate
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882He whose heart is not agitated in the midst of calamities who has no longing for pleasures and from whom (the feelings of) affection fear and wrath have departed is called a sage of steady mind.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.56।। दुःखेषु आध्यात्मिकादिषु प्राप्तेषु न उद्विग्नं न प्रक्षुभितं दुःखप्राप्तौ मनो यस्य सोऽयम् अनुद्विग्नमनाः। तथा सुखेषु प्राप्तेषु विगता स्पृहा तृष्णा यस्य न अग्निरिव इन्धनाद्याधाने सुखान्यनु विवर्धते स विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः रागश्च भयं च क्रोधश्च वीता विगता यस्मात् स वीतरागभयक्रोधः। स्थितधीः स्थितप्रज्ञो मुनिः संन्यासी तदा उच्यते।।किञ्च
4162391281b9…Rāmānuja
2.56 Even when there are reasons for grief like separation from beloved ones, his mind is not perturbed, i.e., he is not aggrieved. He has no longing to enjoy pleasures, i.e., even though the things which he likes are near him, he has no longing for them. He is free from desire and anger; desire is longing for objects not yet obtained; he is free from this. Fear is affliction produced from the knowledge of the factors which cause separation from the beloved or from meeting with that which is not desirable; he is free from this. Anger is a disturbed state of one's own mind which produces affliction and which is aimed at another sentient being who is the cause of separation from the beloved or of confrontation with what is not desirable. He is free from this. A sage of this sort, who constantly meditates on the self, is said to be of firm wisdom. Then, the next state below this is described:
c4f89bbef4b1…Swami Sivananda
2.56 दुःखेषु in adversity? अनुद्विग्नमनाः of unshaken mind? सुखेषु in pleasure? विगतस्पृहः withut hankering? वीतरागभयक्रोधः free from attachment? fear and anger? स्थितधीः of steady wisdom? मुनिः sage? उच्यते (he) is called.Commentary Lord Krishna gives His answer to the second part of Arjunas estion as to the conduct of a sage of steady wisdom in the 56th? 57th and 58th verses.The mind of a sage of steady wisdom is not distressed in calamities. He is not affected by the three afflictions (Taapas) -- Adhyatmika (arising from diseases or disorders in ones own body)? Adhidaivika (arising from thunder? lightning? storm? flood? etc.)? and Adhibhautika (arising from scorpions? cobras? tigers? etc.). When he is placed in an affluent condition he does not long for sensual pleasures. (Cf.IV.10).
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