Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Equanimity

Let balance be how you work, not a reward for finishing.

A steady mind is neither crushed by pain nor carried off by pleasure.

Success and failure are weather; you are the sky.

Moods are weather; awareness is the sky.

Welcome the pleasant lightly; meet the unpleasant calmly.

Honour and insult are weather; you are the sky.

Don't let the scoreboard set your inner weather.

Be an ocean: let every desire arrive and none overflow you.

The wise are calm in motion and alert in rest.

The world touches your senses; it need not touch your peace.

Your balance is your liberation, here and now.

Joy and sorrow visit; neither lives here.

Calm that survives both pleasure and pain is real.

See without grabbing and without pushing away.

Your feelings are weather in the field; you are the one who sees.

Be like the sky: let storms pass through you.

Clarity, restlessness and dullness are weather, not identity.

Beyond your moods is the one who watches them.

The witness is no weather.

Do not hate your states when they come, nor cling when they go.

Stay the same in pleasure and pain.

Be steady whether praised or blamed.

Praise and blame are weather; your centre stays.

A balanced mind carries no scoreboard.

Equality of mind is freedom you can live in today.

Do not cling to the good moment, and do not curse the bad one.

Stay steady in cold and heat, praise and blame.

Equanimity is being yourself whatever the weather.

Meet friend and foe with the same open mind.

Between like and dislike lies a quiet clarity.

Be free of both pride in success and shame in failure.

Fame and infamy are also weather; do not live in either.

Be wide like the ocean, taking in everything with calm.

Don’t cling to the pleasant or flee the unpleasant.

Even-mindedness in good and bad events is a quiet strength.

Gunas arise and pass; the witness remains.

Let the body work; let the heart witness.

Even busy lives can be free lives.

Awareness shines on all your thoughts alike.

Clarity, drive and dullness take turns; none owns you.

To cross beyond the gunas is to stop being tossed.

No state needs to be loved or hated.

Do not chase the good days; do not curse the bad.

Equanimity is a gentle welcome of whatever arrives.

Sit like a witness while the weather of the mind moves.

Be the same in honour and in insult.

Pleasure and pain are two coats; you are neither.

The wise hold the living and the lost with the same calm.

Heat and cold, joy and pain: all visitors, none permanent.

Meet gain and loss with the same steady hands.

A wise mind carries neither pride in the good nor guilt over the bad.

Take good news and bad news with the same posture.

Be active in the world and untouched at the centre.

Let your hands work while your mind rests.

Meet gain and loss with the same quiet face.

A free heart neither chases nor pushes away.

Lasting peace lives in how you work, not in the outcome.

Even-mindedness is a quiet victory.

A peaceful mind is the same in comfort and in hardship.

The storm is in the sky; the sky is not in the storm.

Do your part and sit back in equanimity.

Whether praised or blamed, you remain the same person.

Let both desired and undesired events pass through you calmly.

You can take part in life without being swept away by it.

Know yourself as something that watches change rather than being swept by it.

Let the witness in you grow stronger than the weather.

Freedom from preferences is a quiet joy.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Admiration is weather; steadiness is climate.

Receive what the world gives without being shaken by it.

A mind settled in equality has already crossed the sea.

Evenness is love without favourites.

Honour and insult are weather; the mind need not storm.

When praise and blame weigh the same, you are free.

A steady heart is not shaken by praise or blame of results.

Untroubled does not mean uncaring; it means unshaken.

Praise and blame are only sounds; let them pass.

Observe the dance of qualities without joining every step.

Don’t hate the hard task; don’t cling to the easy one.

Understanding causes cuts through both pride and despair.

Be the same person in victory and in defeat.

An even heart is not cold; it simply refuses to be hijacked.

Worldly rewards arrive fast and leave just as fast.

Rise above the pairs of pleasure and pain.

Likes and dislikes are the chains; loosen them.

Rest in evenness, and rest in the highest.

Equal in praise and blame, you are no longer pushed around.

Gain and loss are guests; be a gracious host.

Pleasure and pain are visitors, not landlords.

Success and failure should not rearrange your character.

A craving doer swings between joy and sorrow.

Pleasure and pain are waves crossing the same sea.

Equal-mindedness is the doorway to lasting peace.

Act with an even mind and no weight of regret follows.

Peace about outcomes frees you to give your all.

Rise above the pull of opposites; neither crave nor reject.

Serenity comes to those who stop bargaining with every like and dislike.

Calm that depends on results is borrowed calm.

Stay level in pain and pleasure, and others can lean on you.

An even mind meets every task the same way.

Free of likes and dislikes, action finds its true shape.

Equanimity is the quiet permission to act without fear.

Between pleasure and pain there is a calm place; learn to stand there.

When pleasure and pain both loosen their hold, what remains is you.

Seeing the play of senses calmly is a form of freedom.

A balanced mind offers everyone the same fairness.

Equal-mindedness is not coldness; it is fairness with a warm heart.

The knower of the eternal acts without hatred.

An even mind makes work clean.

Give the effort; keep the peace.

Insight frees you from taking every wave personally.

Meet pleasant and unpleasant things with the same steady attention.

Equal regard for all is the fruit of a quiet heart.

Practise meeting the pleasant and the painful with the same open hand.

Observe the play of nature; don’t personalise it.

Freedom from opposites is a calm that needs no company.

Peace at both poles is the mark of a ripe mind.

Chasing success? Notice what it costs your stillness.

Beyond opposites, bondage is easy to leave.

Gain, loss, and everything in between: let none of them own you.

Where could more evenness serve you today?

Your work is yours; its harvest is not.

Renounce the fruit, not the work.

Skill means giving the work everything and clinging to none of it.

Act without longing for the fruit, and no action will stain you.

Work on; release the reward.

Find stillness inside your busiest hour.

Let go of the fruit and the work becomes light.

Observe your states without becoming them.

Peace follows the one who lets go of the result.

Participate in the world and stay free inside.

Enjoy without gripping; refuse without hating.

You can act fully and still stand apart from the doing.

Busy hands, quiet heart.

Peace belongs to those who release the fruit.

Calm, restless and dull states all pass through you; none is you.

Steadiness is the best answer to uncertainty.

Non-violence, evenness, contentment and giving: gather these and you are rich.

You can live in the world and still be free.

You do not have to react to every inner movement.

Victory can unsettle the mind as much as defeat.

Even breath, even mind.

Liking and disliking cloud our seeing from the very start.

Desire and aversion are two sides of the same bewilderment.

The sky holds all clouds and clings to none.

Act in the world while sitting lightly above it.

Detachment lets you work without carrying the work home.

Indifference to results is the secret of freedom in action.

Liberation is lightness in the face of outcomes.

Seeing the changeless loosens the grip of every change.

Peace comes not at the end of the climb but at the letting go.

Freedom is wanting neither more nor less than what is.

Pleasure and pain come and go through the field.

You can enjoy the qualities of life without being bound by them.

Joy and sorrow are felt by you but do not define you.

Qualities of mind come and go; you remain.

Sorrow loosens when you no longer identify with every mood.

Let each state pass without a verdict.

Let qualities act; you stay still.

Freedom is finding that you need no enemies.

Do your part well, and make peace with the part that is not yours.

Tumult outside is a test of stillness within.

Work from solid ground, not from hope's shaky ledge.

Effort brings results; only wisdom brings rest.

Release both hatred and craving, and you have renounced enough.

The wise move through the day as witnesses.

Let neither triumph nor trouble shake your centre.

Meet the world with fewer must-haves and must-avoids.

Stand slightly apart from your own doing.

Don’t let the world’s noise set your inner weather.

Treat friend and foe with the same steady dignity.

Desire, aversion, joy and sorrow are part of the field, not the knower.

Be fully alive to the senses while resting free of them.

Cling less to pleasure, cling less to pain; your path grows lighter.

Let your awareness fall evenly on every part of you.

Wisdom is the quiet separation of the witness from the weather.

Your inner weather changes as one quality overtakes another.

Be unconcerned like a hill in the rain.

Treat gold and gravel with the same calm.

Equal regard for the dear and the disliked is a mature heart.

Serene in the Self, one neither grieves nor craves.

Same effort, whether the day ends in praise or silence.

Don’t let attraction or aversion make your decisions.

The one who wants nothing from the result is held by nothing.

Be settled in yourself, and your work cannot shake you.

Be devoted to the effort and indifferent to the verdict.

Outer pleasures are visitors; inner peace is the resident.

Give your actions away and keep your peace.

Grief and craving are two faces of one grip.

Welcome what comes; release what goes.

Aversion is as much a movement of the field as attraction.

Act without clinging and without resenting.

An unattached mind is free even in the middle of action.

Even-mindedness is practised, not waited for.

Anchor yourself within; the world can then flow around you.

Yoga is reached when neither things nor tasks hold you.

When the goal is an offering, failure loses its sting.

Calm runs both ways: don’t unsettle, don’t be unsettled.

Let good fortune and bad both pass through you.

Let the work pass through you; don’t let it stick to you.

Be like the immovable: let events pass through without moving you.

Hatred of the bad binds you as tightly as craving for the good.

Let events be what they are; add no extra liking or disliking.

Let work flow through you, not from your ego.

To be balanced toward all is to stand in the truth.

Calm is not earned by results; it is released from them.

Devotion makes room for joy and sorrow without being ruled by either.

Experiences rotate; awareness stays steady.

To welcome the unwelcome task is to be free of it.

The renouncer is not weighed down by outcomes.

When your cause is right, you can meet either outcome with a clear heart.

Win or lose, a wholehearted effort leaves you whole.

Meet every outcome as a guest, not as an enemy or a king.

Let the highest in you stay level through every season.

A steady self can release what it cannot control.

What you can bear evenly, you can bear well.

Wisdom sees tasks, not likes and dislikes.

Calm is the mark of one not ruled by liking.

Results come in three flavours: bitter, sweet, and mixed.

Do what is yours to do, neither for love nor against hate.

Emotional highs and lows are the tax on attachment.

Release both the pull and the push of the senses.

Dispassion is a calm that does not depend on circumstances.

Free yourself from the see-saw of likes and dislikes.

Your preferences are weather, not a compass.

Even joy can overexcite; steadiness keeps it sweet.

Meet insult with composure and it loses its power.

Responsibility without resentment is the mark of the steady.

Treat victory and defeat as one teacher in two coats.

Aversion binds as tightly as attraction.

Learn to see coming, staying, and going as one flow.

Ask which of your worries are perishable.

Steady in pleasant work and unpleasant work alike.

What changes in your effort if gain and loss weigh the same to you?

Calm comes from seeing that moods and actions are processes.

Rise above your moods and stay good to everyone.

Goodness is steady, not picky.

The unbound can enter the world without being bound.