BHAGAVAD-GITA 12:15

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 12:15

 

yasman nodvijate loko

lokan nodvijate ca yah

harsamarsa-bhayodvegair

mukto yah sa ca me priyah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yasmat--from whom; na--never; udvijate--are agitated; lokah--people;

lokat--from people; na--never; udvijate--is disturbed; ca--also;

yah--anyone who; harsa--from happiness; amarsa--distress; bhaya--fear;

udvegaih--and anxiety; muktah--freed; yah--who; sah--anyone; ca--also;

me--to Me; priyah--very dear.

 

TRANSLATION

 

He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by

anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and distress, fear and anxiety,

is very dear to Me.

 

PURPORT

 

A few of a devotee's qualifications are further being described. No

one is put into difficulty, anxiety, fearfulness or dissatisfaction by

such a devotee. Since a devotee is kind to everyone, he does not act

in such a way as to put others into anxiety. At the same time, if

others try to put a devotee into anxiety, he is not disturbed. It is

by the grace of the Lord that he is so practiced that he is not

disturbed by any outward disturbance. Actually because a devotee is

always engrossed in Krsna consciousness and engaged in devotional

service, such material circumstances cannot move him. Generally a

materialistic person becomes very happy when there is something for

his sense gratification and his body, but when he sees that others

have something for their sense gratification and he hasn't, he is

sorry and envious. When he is expecting some retaliation from an

enemy, he is in a state of fear, and when he cannot successfully

execute something he becomes dejected. A devotee who is always

transcendental to all these disturbances is very dear to Krsna.

 

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