6.7 Steady in heat and cold Krishna speaks
जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः
शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः
jitātmanaḥ praśhāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ
śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ
For the self-mastered and peaceful, the highest self is steady — in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour alike.
Explanation
The signs, and they are the book's usual pairs.
Cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour. For the self-mastered and peaceful, the highest self is steady.
The same list appears in chapters 2, 12 and 14. What differs here is the claim: not that such a person endures the pairs, but that something in them is already unaffected by them.
Word by word
- jita-ātmanaḥ
- one who has conquered one’s mind
- praśhāntasya
- of the peaceful
- parama-ātmā
- God
- samāhitaḥ
- steadfast
- śhīta
- in cold
- uṣhṇa
- heat
- sukha
- happiness
- duḥkheṣhu
- and distress
- tathā
- also
- māna
- in honor
- apamānayoḥ
- and dishonor
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