Sanskrit
यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ । समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
yaṃ hi na vyathayanty ete puruṣaṃ puruṣarṣabha samaduḥkhasukhaṃ dhīraṃ so'mṛtatvāya kalpate
Translation
The man whom these torment not, O chief of men, balanced in pain and pleasure, steadfast, he is fitted for immortality.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
A direct consequence of the previous verse: the person genuinely unmoved by pleasure and pain — not numb to them, but not destabilized by them — is described as “fitted for immortality,” i.e. positioned to actually grasp what Krishna has been arguing rather than just hearing the words.
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