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Mind blowing quote of the day.

BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS 2.56, VERSION 3, BY FAR THE MOST FAITHFUL VERSION OF ALL!

ORIGINAL SANSKRIT (as spoken by Krishna Himself on the battlefield )

duhkheshv anudvigna-manah
sukheshu vigata-sprihah
vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
sthita-dhir munir ucyate

WORD FOR WORD RENDITION

duhkhesu — in the threefold miseries; anudvigna-manah — without being agitated in mind; sukhesu — in happiness; vigata-sprhah — without being interested; vita — free from; raga — attachment; bhaya — fear; krodhah — and anger; sthita — dhih — whose mind is steady; munih — a sage; ucyate — is called.

TRANSLATION by Srila Prabhupada.

One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries and is not puffed up when there is happiness and thus is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage fixed in mind.

PURPORT  by  Srila Prabhupada.

The word “muni” means one who can agitate his mind in various ways for mental speculation without any factual conclusion. It is said that every muni has a different angle of vision and unless a muni is not different in view from another muni, he cannot be called a muni in the strict sense of the term. “Nasav rshir yasya matam na bhinnam” (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.117). But a sthita-dhir muni, as mentioned herein by the Lord, is different from an ordinary muni. The sthita-dhir muni is always in Krishna consciousness after having finished all speculative business of creative speculation. He is called prashanta-nihshesa-mano-rathantara (Stotra-ratna 43), or one who has surpassed the stage of mental speculations, and has come to the conclusion that Lord Sri Krishna, or Vasudeva, is everything (vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah). He is called a muni fixed in mind. Such a fully Krishna conscious person is not at all disturbed by the onslaughts of the threefold miseries. Such muni accepts all miseries as mercy of the Lord, thinking that he would have been in more trouble on account of his past misdeeds, but by the grace of the Lord, the miseries have been minimised to the lowest. Similarly, when he is happy, he gives credit to the Lord, thinking himself unworthy of the happiness but only due to the Lord’s grace he is in such comfortable condition to render better service to the Lord. And for the service of the Lord he is always daring and active without being influenced by any attachment or detachment. Attachment means accepting things for one’s own sense gratification and detachment is the absence of such sensual attachment. But one fixed in mind in Krishna consciousness has no such attachment or detachment because his life is dedicated to the service of the Lord. And because he has no such sensual attachment and detachment, he is not at all angry even when he appears to be unsuccessful in his attempts. Success or no success, a Krishna conscious person is always steady in his determination.