Samatva in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to samatva, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 2.38Equanimity frees action from the stain of panic and craving.
• 2.48Equanimity turns action into yoga.
• 2.50Clear action frees you from the weight of both success and failure.
• 4.22Equal-minded action leaves no hook for bondage.
• 5.19Sameness of mind is the real conquest; everything else is aftermath.
• 5.20Steadiness begins when pleasure and pain lose their power over you.
• 6.7Steadiness makes the highest reality feel near in every opposite.
• 6.32Equal vision makes you unshaken by pleasure or pain.
• 9.29Equality is universal; intimacy is born through devotion.
• 12.3The deepest devotion reaches what never changes.
• 12.4Reach the divine by mastering yourself and caring for everyone.
• 12.18Real devotion stays even when life feels hostile or kind.
• 14.24Steadiness means nothing external gets to decide your center.