यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः।समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते॥
yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥsamaḥ siddhāvasiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate
Word by word
The verse says
Content with whatever comes, past the pairs, free of grudging, the same in success and failure - even acting, he is not bound.
In plain words
Four marks, and the first is the most practical.
Yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭaḥ - content with what arrives of its own accord. Not with nothing. With whatever turns up.
And vimatsaraḥ - without envy, without the grudge against someone else's portion.
Where you've felt this · in growing older
Your neighbour at seventy-four takes the day as it comes, bad ones included. He is not pretending the knee is fine. He has stopped auditing each week against a version of it that never happened.
Going deeper
Yadṛcchā - of its own accord, unsought. The same word appeared at 2.32, where the war arrived unasked. The Gita keeps using it to mark the difference between what comes and what is chased.
Freedom from envy deserves attention, because envy is rarely named in these lists. Matsara is the specific grudging that arises not from wanting something but from someone else having it.
It belongs here because it is the clearest test of whether contentment is real. A person can be genuinely satisfied with their own portion and still curdle at someone else's. The two feelings are independent, and the second one exposes the first.
Dvandvātītaḥ - gone past the pairs - is the same idea as 2.45. The chapter is assembling its portrait out of parts already laid down, which is how the Gita builds: a phrase introduced, dropped, and returned to with more weight.