Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Endure them.

What it means

Sensations arrive and leave on their own schedule; none of them is permanent. The Gita asks for patient endurance, not denial. Let it pass through without letting it run you.

The source

"Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Endure them." Bhagavad Gita said it in Bhagavad Gita 2.14. Translated from the original Sanskrit by Spartan Surfers.

"मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः । आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत"

Original Sanskrit, Bhagavad Gita 2.14. Text read at sa.wikisource.org.

Who said it

Bhagavad Gita (c. 2nd century BC). Seven hundred Sanskrit verses from the Mahabharata in which Krishna counsels the warrior Arjuna on the eve of battle. It teaches action without attachment to results.

Questions

What does "Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Endure them." mean?

Sensations arrive and leave on their own schedule; none of them is permanent. The Gita asks for patient endurance, not denial. Let it pass through without letting it run you.

Who said "Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Endure them."?

Bhagavad Gita (c. 2nd century BC). Source: Bhagavad Gita 2.14.

What is the original Sanskrit?

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः । आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत. Translated from the original Sanskrit by Spartan Surfers.

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