Samatva in the Bhagavad Gita
Samatva is equanimity — not indifference, but equal-mindedness toward pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame. The Gita calls it yoga. This steadiness is what practice is actually building toward.
- 2.38Ch. 2
Equanimity frees action from the stain of panic and craving.
Inner steadiness makes hard action possible without guilt or panic.
- 2.48Ch. 2
Equanimity turns action into yoga.
You can stay calm without stopping action. Inner balance makes effort cleaner and less painful.
- 2.50Ch. 2
Clear action frees you from the weight of both success and failure.
You do not have to be trapped by the moral weight of every result.
- 4.22Ch. 4
Equal-minded action leaves no hook for bondage.
Freedom grows when success and failure stop controlling your mood.
- 5.19Ch. 5
Sameness of mind is the real conquest; everything else is aftermath.
You can stop fighting reality and feel the quiet strength of being rooted beyond change.
- 5.20Ch. 5
Steadiness begins when pleasure and pain lose their power over you.
You do not have to be pushed around by every gain or loss.
- 6.7Ch. 6
Steadiness makes the highest reality feel near in every opposite.
You do not need life to become gentle before you can be at ease.
- 6.32Ch. 6
Equal vision makes you unshaken by pleasure or pain.
There is freedom in meeting life without flinching or favoring one side.
- 9.29Ch. 9
Equality is universal; intimacy is born through devotion.
You do not have to earn basic worth; devotion changes distance into intimacy.
- 12.3Ch. 12
The deepest devotion reaches what never changes.
The mind grows quiet when it stops chasing forms and learns to honor what never changes.
- 12.4Ch. 12
Reach the divine by mastering yourself and caring for everyone.
Devotion becomes lighter when it stops being private and starts including everyone.
- 12.18Ch. 12
Real devotion stays even when life feels hostile or kind.
You can stay open and calm without needing life to treat you kindly.
- 14.24Ch. 14
Steadiness means nothing external gets to decide your center.
You do not have to be pulled around by every reaction. Steadiness is possible.