Chapter 2 · Verse 70 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.70
Sanskrit
आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्। तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी।।2.70।।
Transliteration
āpūryamāṇam achala-pratiṣhṭhaṁ samudram āpaḥ praviśhanti yadvat tadvat kāmā yaṁ praviśhanti sarve sa śhāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī
In plain words
You're exhausted from chasing, from needing things to be different, from the constant ache of unfulfilled longing—whether it's a person, a outcome, a version of your life you thought you'd have by now. Krishna says: the peace you're searching for isn't found by getting what you want, but by becoming so grounded in what is real and true about you that desires can move through you without tearing you apart. Stop asking what you need to gain. Ask instead who you are when nothing is added or taken away.
Word by Word
The ocean receives countless rivers and rains from all directions, yet remains unmoved, boundless, and at perfect peace—because it has nowhere else to go, nothing more to gain. When desires flow into a person of established wisdom like waters into that ocean, they pass through without disturbing the ground of their being.
This is the state Krishna reveals: not the suppression of desire, but the cessation of the hunger behind it. For us today, this means building an inner life so full and rooted in purpose that outer circumstances—success, failure, pleasure, pain—can no longer shake our foundation.
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Bhagavad Gita 2.70 — BG 2.70
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