12.15 Undisturbing and undisturbed Krishna speaks
यस्मान्नोद्विजते लोको लोकान्नोद्विजते च यः
हर्षामर्षभयोद्वेगैर्मुक्तो यः स च मे प्रियः
yasmān nodvijate loko lokān nodvijate cha yaḥ
harṣhāmarṣha-bhayodvegair mukto yaḥ sa cha me priyaḥ
One by whom the world is not disturbed and who is not disturbed by the world, free of elation, impatience, fear and agitation — that one is dear to me.
Explanation
Undisturbing, and undisturbed.
Both directions, in one line: the world is not agitated by this person, and this person is not agitated by the world.
The first half is easy to read past and is the harder achievement. Plenty of disciplines produce someone unbothered; this one asks for someone whose steadiness is not imposed on everybody around them.
Word by word
- yasmāt
- by whom
- na
- not
- udvijate
- are agitated
- lokaḥ
- people
- lokāt
- from people
- na
- not
- udvijate
- are disturbed
- cha
- and
- yaḥ
- who
- harṣha
- pleasure
- amarṣha
- pain
- bhaya
- fear
- udvegaiḥ
- anxiety
- muktaḥ
- freed
- yaḥ
- who
- saḥ
- they
- cha
- and
- me
- to me
- priyaḥ
- very dear
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