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Bhagavad Gita 2.56 · Krishna

Free of craving, fear and anger

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दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः।

वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥

duḥkheṣvanudvignamanāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥvītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīrmunirucyate

Not shaken in sorrow, not craving pleasure, free of clinging, fear and anger, such a person is a sage of steady mind.

What it means

Krishna continues the portrait. In hard times, the steady person isn't overwhelmed. In good times, they don't chase more. Three forces have loosened their grip, raga, clinging, bhaya, fear, and krodha, anger. They still feel. They just aren't ruled.

The story

Arjuna is drowning in sorrow, longing for a different reality, afraid and inwardly angry at Duryodhana. Krishna is describing everything Arjuna is not, right now. Not to shame him, but to show him who he could become.

In your life

Imagine a nurse in a crisis who feels everything but keeps her hands steady and her voice kind. That's not numbness. It's mastery. Next time anger flares, name it, take three breaths, then choose.

Feel everything. Be ruled by nothing.