sukham

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः

sukha — happiness

Contact with the world brings cold and heat, pleasure and pain, son of Kunti. They come and they go; they do not last. Endure them.

यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ

sukham — happiness

The one whom these do not disturb, who is the same in pain and pleasure and steady — that one is fit for what does not die.

सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ

sukha — happiness

Treating pleasure and pain alike, gain and loss, victory and defeat — then engage in the fight, and you take on no wrong.

नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना

sukham — happiness

The unjoined have no understanding and no contemplation; without contemplation there is no peace, and without peace, where is happiness?

अज्ञश्चाश्रद्दधानश्च संशयात्मा विनश्यति

sukham — happiness

The ignorant, the faithless and the doubting are lost. For one who doubts there is no happiness here or anywhere.

ज्ञेयः स नित्यसंन्यासी यो न द्वेष्टि न काङ्क्षति

sukham — easily

Know that one to be always a renouncer who neither hates nor craves. Free of opposites, mighty-armed one, such a person is released.

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी

sukham — happily

Having renounced all actions with the mind, the self-governed one dwells at ease. The embodied one in this city of nine gates neither acts nor causes action.

बाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम्

sukham — bliss

Unattached to outward contacts, one finds the happiness that is in the self. Joined to Brahman through yoga, such a person reaches inexhaustible joy.

जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः

sukha — happiness

For the self-mastered and peaceful, the highest self is steady — in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour alike.

सुखमात्यन्तिकं यत्तद्बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम्

sukham — happiness

where one knows that limitless happiness, grasped by the understanding and beyond the senses; and standing there, does not stray from what is true —

युञ्जन्नेवं सदाऽऽत्मानं योगी विगतकल्मषः

sukhena — easily

Keeping the self constantly so joined, freed of faults, the practitioner easily reaches the boundless happiness of touching Brahman.

आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन

sukham — joy

One who sees everywhere as they see themselves, Arjuna — in joy or in sorrow alike — that one is held to be the highest practitioner.

बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः

sukham — joy

Understanding, knowledge, clarity, patience, truthfulness, restraint of the senses, calm of mind, pleasure and pain, coming to be and ceasing to be, fear and fearlessness,

समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः

sukha-duḥkheṣhu — in joy and sorrow

The same to enemy and friend, the same in honour and dishonour, in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain, free of attachment;

इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतनाधृतिः

sukham — happiness

desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the body as an aggregate, awareness, and steadiness — this, in brief, is the field with its changes.

कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते

sukha-duḥkhānām — of happiness and distress

Nature is said to be the ground of cause and effect and of doing; the person is said to be the ground of the experience of pleasure and pain.

तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्

sukha — happiness

Of these, clarity, being spotless, illumines and is free of trouble. It binds by attachment to happiness and to knowledge.

ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाऽहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च

sukhasya — of bliss

For I am the ground of Brahman — of the deathless, the imperishable, the everlasting, and of what is right, and of happiness that does not end.

निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः

sukha-duḥkha — pleasure and pain

Free of vanity and delusion, having overcome the fault of attachment, constant in the self, free of longing, released from the opposites of pleasure and pain — such undeluded ones reach that unchanging place.

यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः

sukham — happiness

One who casts aside what the scriptures direct and acts on the impulse of desire reaches neither perfection nor happiness nor the highest goal.

आयुःसत्त्वबलारोग्यसुखप्रीतिविवर्धनाः

sukha — happiness

Foods that increase life, clarity, strength, health, ease and satisfaction — juicy, rich, nourishing and pleasing — are dear to those of clarity.

सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ

sukham — happiness

Now hear from me of the three kinds of happiness, best of the Bharatas.

यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्

sukham — happiness

That which is like poison at first and like nectar in the end, born of the clarity of self-knowledge, is happiness of clarity.

विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्

sukham — happiness

That which arises from the meeting of the senses with their objects, like nectar at first and poison in the end, is happiness of restlessness.

यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः

sukham — happiness

And that happiness which deludes the self from beginning to end, arising from sleep, idleness and heedlessness, is said to be of inertia.