यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः।समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते॥
yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥsamaḥ siddhāvasiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Content with whatever comes, past the pairs, free of grudging, the same in success and failure — even acting, he is not bound.
सरल शब्दों में
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.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Someone in their seventies who takes the day as it comes, including the bad ones. They are not pretending the knee is fine. They have stopped auditing the week against a version that did not happen.
और गहराई में
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.
Vimatsara 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 2.45's nirdvandva. 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.