Chapter 12 · Verse 17 · Bhakti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 12.17
Sanskrit
यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति।शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्ितमान्यः स मे प्रियः।।12.17।।
Transliteration
yo na hṛiṣhyati na dveṣhṭi na śhochati na kāṅkṣhati śhubhāśhubha-parityāgī bhaktimān yaḥ sa me priyaḥ
Word by Word
The Lord reveals the heart-signature of true devotion: a soul unshaken by the world's dualities, neither clinging to good fortune nor fleeing from hardship, yet fully alive in love for the Divine. This is not indifference but the deepest engagement—the devotee acts with full presence while holding all outcomes in God's hands.
In our modern restlessness, this verse invites us to release the exhausting grip of winning and losing, and discover the freedom that blooms when our hearts belong entirely to something greater than our circumstances.
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Bhagavad Gita 12.17 — BG 12.17
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