13.10 Not clinging to the household Krishna speaks
असक्ितरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु
नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु
asaktir anabhiṣhvaṅgaḥ putra-dāra-gṛihādiṣhu
nityaṁ cha sama-chittatvam iṣhṭāniṣhṭopapattiṣhu
non-attachment, no clinging to children, spouse, home and the rest, and constant evenness of mind in what is wanted and what is not;
Explanation
Not clinging to children, spouse, home.
The most domestic verse in the list, and the hardest. Then: constant evenness in what is wanted and what is not.
Worth reading against chapter 1, where Arjuna's objection was precisely the household — his teachers, his cousins, his kin. The chapter's list of knowledge includes the thing he could not do.
Word by word
- asaktiḥ
- non-attachment
- anabhiṣhvaṅgaḥ
- absence of craving
- putra
- children
- dāra
- spouse
- gṛiha-ādiṣhu
- home, etc
- nityam
- constant
- cha
- and
- sama-chittatvam
- even-mindedness
- iṣhṭa
- the desirable
- aniṣhṭa
- undesirable
- upapattiṣhu
- having obtained
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