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2.57 Neither delighting nor recoiling Krishna speaks

यः सर्वत्रानभिस्नेहस्तत्तत्प्राप्य शुभाशुभम्
नाभिनन्दति न द्वेष्टि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता

yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śhubhāśhubham
nābhinandati na dveṣhṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣhṭhitā

Unattached everywhere, meeting good and bad alike, neither delighting nor recoiling — in such a person wisdom is firmly established.

Explanation

Neither delighting nor recoiling.

Meeting good and bad alike — śubhāśubham.

The pair is uncomfortable in a way the others are not. Evenness about pleasure and pain is one thing; evenness about good and bad is a claim the Gita will spend chapters 16 and 17 complicating.

Word by word

yaḥ
who
sarvatra
in all conditions
anabhisnehaḥ
unattached
tat
that
tat
that
prāpya
attaining
śhubha
good
aśhubham
evil
na
neither
abhinandati
delight in
na
nor
dveṣhṭi
dejected by
tasya
his
prajñā
knowledge
pratiṣhṭhitā
is fixed