Sanskrit
यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ्क्षति । शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्तिमान्यः स मे प्रियः ॥
yo na hṛṣyati na dveṣṭi na śocati na kāṅkṣati śubhāśubhaparityāgī bhaktimān yaḥ sa me priyaḥ
Translation
He who neither loveth nor hateth, nor grieveth, nor desireth, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Four paired negations in a single line (delight/hatred, grief/desire) read almost as a compressed restatement of 2.56-57’s vītarāga formula, now extended to a moral register with “renouncing good and evil” (śubhāśubhaparityāgī) — not indifference to ethics, but non-attachment to the outcome of having acted rightly or wrongly, in keeping with the phalatyāga theme running since verse 11.
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