Sanskrit
शक्नोतीहैव यः सोढुं प्राक् शरीरविमोक्षणात् । कामक्रोधोद्भवं वेगं स युक्तः स सुखी नरः ॥
śaknotīhaiva yaḥ soḍhuṃ prāk śarīravimokṣaṇāt kāmakrodhodbhavaṃ vegaṃ sa yuktaḥ sa sukhī naraḥ
Translation
He who is able to endure here on earth, ere he be liberated from the body, the force born from desire and passion, he is harmonised, he is a happy man.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The test is explicitly time-bound — before the body’s release, meaning while still alive, not as a deathbed accomplishment — and the target is vega, the surge or force of desire and anger treated as a single physiological event rather than two separate emotions. Being able to withstand that surge earns both labels in the same breath, harmonised and happy, collapsing any gap a reader might assume exists between discipline and joy. This is a practical, almost clinical framing — endurance under a specific kind of internal pressure — that chapter 6 will turn into actual technique.