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Bhagavad Gita 2.48: Equanimity in Success and Failure
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To act while remaining even-minded in success and failure — this evenness is called yoga. A steadying counsel for pressure and stress.
“yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya”
Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · Chapter 2, Sankhya YogaSteady in spirit, do your work and let go of attachment, calm alike in success and failure. This evenness of mind is yoga.
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
Steady in spirit, do your work and let go of attachment, calm alike in success and failure. This evenness of mind is yoga.
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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Steady in spirit, do your work and let go of attachment, calm alike in success and failure. This evenness of mind is yoga. (Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · 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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