Chapter 14 · Verse 24 · Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 14.24
Sanskrit
समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः।।14.24।।
Transliteration
sama-duḥkha-sukhaḥ sva-sthaḥ sama-loṣhṭāśhma-kāñchanaḥ tulya-priyāpriyo dhīras tulya-nindātma-sanstutiḥ
In plain words
You are being torn apart by what people think of you—by praise that inflates you and blame that devastates you, by wins that feel hollow and losses that feel like death. Krishna says: the person who finds peace is the one who stops measuring their worth against the world's judgment, the one who sees that gold and dust are both just dust. This doesn't mean you stop caring—it means you stop drowning in what others say, and you start listening to the steady, unchanging truth inside you.
Word by Word
This verse describes the mark of one who has transcended the three gunas—the person who remains unmoved by pleasure and pain, who sees a clod of earth, a stone, and gold with equal indifference. This is not coldness or numbness, but the flowering of true wisdom: when the eye of the soul opens, all external valuations collapse.
For us today, this means practicing the art of non-reactivity—noticing when you cling to praise or shrivel under blame, and gently returning to the stillness within that witnesses all of it.
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Bhagavad Gita 14.24 — BG 14.24
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