Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5

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5.19

इहैव तैर्जितः सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मनः ।
निर्दोषं हि समं ब्रह्म तस्माद् ब्रह्मणि ते स्थिताः
॥ ५-१९॥

ihaiva tairjitaḥ sargo yeṣāṁ sāmye
sthitam manaḥ nirdoṣaṁ hi samaṁ
brahma tasmād brahmaṇi te sthitāḥ

In this life, surely, those whose minds
are situated in equanimity have
conquered birth and death. They are
flawless like the Supreme and therefore,
are situated in the Supreme.

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We move seamlessly from birth through living into death and again into birth.

न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्।
स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः
॥ ५-२०॥

na prahṛṣyetpriyaṁ prāpya
nodvijet prāpya cāpriyam
sthirabuddhir asammūḍho
brahmavid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ

One who does not rejoice at achieving
something he likes nor gets agitated on
getting something he does not like,
who is of steady intelligence, who is
not deluded, one who knows the
Supreme, is situated in the Supreme.

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Kṛṣṇa says that one who is of steady intelligence, one who does not get caught in the play of opposing emotions or patterns like pleasure and pain, happiness and misery, is established in the Supreme, is Supreme himself.

वाह्यस्पर्शेष्वसक्तात्मा विन्दत्यात्मनि यत्सुखम् |
स ब्रह्मयोगयुक्तात्मा सुखमक्षयमश्नुते
॥ ५-२१ ॥

bāhyasparśeṣvasaktātmā vindatyātmani
yatsukham sa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā
sukhamakṣayamaśnute

One who is not attached to the outer world sense pleasures, who enjoys in the Self, in that happiness, he, having identified with his Self by engaging in the Supreme [brahma-yoga], enjoys unlimited happiness.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Kṛṣṇa advises us to turn inwards. Move away from your senses, move into your Source

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