Sanskrit
समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः । शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः ॥
samaḥ śatrau ca mitre ca tathā mānāpamānayoḥ śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu samaḥ saṅgavivarjitaḥ
Translation
Alike to foe and friend, and also in fame and ignominy, alike in cold and heat, pleasures and pains, destitute of attachment,
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
This is the clearest overlap in the whole chapter with the sthitaprajna portrait — foe and friend, honor and dishonor, heat and cold, pleasure and pain, all named as pairs the devotee holds level. It’s essentially the same equanimity criterion 2.56-57 uses to define steady wisdom, here used to define devotion instead, which is the chapter’s implicit argument: bhakti and sthitaprajna converge on the same internal discipline even though they start from different practices.
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