Sanskrit
तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिर्मौनी सन्तुष्टो येन केनचित् । अनिकेतः स्थिरमतिर्भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नरः ॥
tulyanindāstutir maunī santuṣṭo yena kenacit aniketaḥ sthiramatir bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ
Translation
Taking equally praise and reproach, silent, wholly content with what cometh, homeless, firm in mind, full of devotion, that man is dear to Me.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Sameness in praise and blame (tulya-nindā-stutiḥ) directly echoes 2.56-57’s own equanimity language, but this verse also adds two qualities absent from that earlier portrait: silence (maunī) and homelessness (aniketaḥ). Contentment “with whatever comes” (yena kenacit) generalizes verse 13’s balance of pleasure and pain into a stance toward circumstance as a whole, marking the devotee list as broader in scope than the jñāna-based portrait it otherwise closely tracks.
Concepts