यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति ।शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्तिमान्यः स मे प्रियः॥
yo na hṛṣyati na dveṣṭi na śocati na kāṅkṣatiśubhāśubha-parityāgī bhaktimān yaḥ sa me priyaḥ
Word by word
The verse says
Who does not rejoice and does not hate, does not grieve and does not crave, who has given up both the lovely and the unlovely, and is full of devotion — that one is dear to me.
In plain words
Four negatives and then the one positive.
No rejoicing, no hating, no grieving, no craving — which could describe somebody who has gone numb.
Then bhaktimān — full of devotion. That single word rules the numb reading out.
Where you've felt this · in health
A friend who has been through a long stretch of bad health talks about it now without heat. She is not detached from her own life; she still rings you about the dog. Whatever happened in those two years took the charge out of the memory without taking the memory away.
Going deeper
A list of four absences ends with a presence, and the ordering is what keeps this from being a description of deadness.
Taken alone, the four negatives describe somebody nothing reaches. That state exists, it is sometimes mistaken for peace, and it is not what is being praised here. The last word reverses it: full of devotion. Whatever has gone quiet, the capacity for attachment has not.
That is the difference between equanimity and flatness, and this book is careful about it in several places.
The useful version for a reader is a question to ask about your own calm. If something has stopped bothering you, has your capacity for being moved gone with it? If it has, the verse is not describing you, and the distinction matters more than it first appears.