जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः।शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः॥
jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥśītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
For the one whose self is conquered and who is at peace, the highest self is settled — in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain, in honour and dishonour alike.
सरल शब्दों में
Three pairs, and the third is the one that stings.
Cold and heat. Pleasure and pain. And then honour and dishonour.
The first two are weather. The third is other people.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Your grandmother is the same person in the good room and in the back kitchen, with the bank manager and with the boy who brings the gas. It is not good manners. There is only one of her.
और गहराई में
The third pair is deliberately placed last, because it is the one the first two do not prepare you for.
Cold and heat arrive from the world. Pleasure and pain arrive from the body. Mānāpamānayoḥ — honour and dishonour — arrive from other people, and they land somewhere the other two do not reach.
Most people can be reasonably steady in discomfort and come apart at being thought badly of. The two are not the same difficulty, and the Gita is not pretending they are by listing them together.
And there is a test in the ordering. If you want to know how settled something really is, do not check it against hardship. Check it against being misjudged by someone whose opinion you had not thought you cared about.
That is usually where the actual footing shows.