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Bhagavad Gita 2.14: This Too Shall Pass
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Heat and cold, pleasure and pain arise from contact and are fleeting — they come and go. Learn to endure them with patience.
“mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ”
Bhagavad Gita 2.14 · Chapter 2, Sankhya YogaHeat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go and do not last. Endure them with patience, dear one.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
What it means
Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go and do not last. Endure them with patience, dear one.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
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Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go and do not last. Endure them with patience, dear one. (Bhagavad Gita 2.14 · Chapter 2, Sankhya Yoga.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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