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.

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.

You may fall out of calm a hundred times; that is part of the path.

See without grabbing and without pushing away.

Be like the sky: let storms pass through you.

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.

The wise feel everything and are uprooted by nothing.

Equality of mind is freedom you can live in today.

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

Stability is staying yourself in every kind of weather.

Even breath, even mind.

Stay steady in cold and heat, praise and blame.

Equanimity is being yourself whatever the weather.

Between like and dislike lies a quiet clarity.

To see the glory behind everything is to be steady.

A mountain teaches steadiness without words.

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

Meet hard tasks with a calm heart.

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

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.

Let qualities act; you stay still.

Steadiness is an inner wealth.

Be the same in honour and in insult.

Pleasure and pain are two coats; you are neither.

One who stays steady in pleasure and pain is ready for freedom.

Meet gain and loss with the same steady hands.

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

Take good news and bad news with the same posture.

Meet gain and loss with the same quiet face.

Even-mindedness is a quiet victory.

Let neither triumph nor trouble shake your centre.

Whether praised or blamed, you remain the same person.

Be as steady as a mountain that has watched centuries.

Let both desired and undesired events pass through you calmly.

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

The one who watches is never disturbed by what is watched.

Be unconcerned like a hill in the rain.

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

Steadiness is visible: in tone, in pace, in how you wait.

Receive what the world gives without being shaken by it.

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

A mind settled in equality has already crossed the sea.

A steady mind rides both the high and the low.

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

Every pair of opposites is an invitation to look deeper.

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

Let your steadiness be visible from far.

Untroubled does not mean uncaring; it means unshaken.

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

Be the same person in victory and in defeat.

Even-mindedness is practised, not waited for.

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

Rise above the pairs of pleasure and pain.

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

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.

Wanting steadiness and struggling for it are not contradictions.

Meru, the golden mountain: be a still centre amid change.

Success and failure should not rearrange your character.

Pleasure and pain are waves crossing the same sea.

Equal-mindedness is the doorway to lasting peace.

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

Answer slander with steadiness, not with sharper words.

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

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

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

An even mind meets every task the same way.

Steadiness is a skill that can be grown.

You can differ about the nature of life and still choose steadiness.

Criticism can be loud and unkind; keep your centre.

Pleasure and pain, win and lose: let none of them decide your effort.

Equanimity is the quiet permission to act without fear.

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

Be rooted in yourself, and the world's swings pass over you.

Neither cheer too loudly nor curse too quickly.

Let the highest in you stay level through every season.

Even the willing find steadiness hard.

A balanced mind offers everyone the same fairness.

Stay level through highs and lows; it is a quiet kind of strength.

An even mind makes work clean.

How would a steady mind handle your next hard conversation?

Meet pleasant and unpleasant things with the same steady attention.

The hour of testing asks for steadiness first and explanations later.

When those you respect misjudge you, it stings; steadiness helps.

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

Freedom from opposites is a calm that needs no company.

Steady in pleasant work and unpleasant work alike.

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

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

How are you reacting to the pleasant and the unpleasant today?

Where could more evenness serve you today?

Success and failure are weather; you are the sky.

Moods are weather; awareness is the sky.

Find stillness inside your busiest hour.

Anger rises like a wave; let it break without you.

Be steady at all times, not only in the easy ones.

Enjoy without gripping; refuse without hating.

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.

Steadiness is the best answer to uncertainty.

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

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

Clarity, restlessness and dullness are weather, not identity.

Beyond your moods is the one who watches them.

The witness is no weather.

You do not have to react to every inner movement.

Steady devotion carries you past the changing moods.

Victory can unsettle the mind as much as defeat.

A balanced mind carries no scoreboard.

Not too high, not too low: find your balanced place.

The states come and go; the witness remains.

Beyond calm, restless and dull, there is something steady.

Liking and disliking cloud our seeing from the very start.

Desire and aversion are two sides of the same bewilderment.

Act in the world while sitting lightly above it.

Indifference to results is the secret of freedom in action.

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

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

Give, be gentle, be steady: three simple virtues for a lifetime.

Face your hardest duty with steadiness, not with hatred.

Composure returns when comfort arrives.

Seeing the changeless loosens the grip of every change.

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

Pleasure and pain come and go through the field.

Gunas arise and pass; the witness remains.

You can do your best and still stand a little apart from it.

Awareness shines on all your thoughts alike.

Let each state pass without a verdict.

Non-reaction is a form of strength.

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

Tumult outside is a test of stillness within.

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

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

A free heart neither chases nor pushes away.

The wise move through the day as witnesses.

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

Preferences are the first veil.

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

Do your part and sit back in equanimity.

Practise gentleness, even-mindedness and generosity daily.

Pairs complete each other: night and day, giving and receiving.

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

Steady love survives both fortune and misfortune.

Even the dirtiest weather leaves the sky unchanged.

Let your awareness fall evenly on every part of you.

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

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

Let the witness in you grow stronger than the weather.

Welcome clarity, accept restlessness, allow fog; none stays.

Freedom from preferences is a quiet joy.

Stand firm and do not waver when moods swirl.

Treat gold and gravel with the same calm.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Admiration is weather; steadiness is climate.

Serene in the Self, one neither grieves nor craves.

Endure it gracefully; it did not come to stay.

Anyone is wise on a quiet mountain; try the crowded street.

Fear, anger and craving rise like tides; steady ground outlasts them.

Anchor the mind in something higher than its moods.

Happiness rests on peace, and peace on a steady mind.

Don’t let attraction or aversion make your decisions.

Be devoted to the effort and indifferent to the verdict.

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

Courage can be calm like a lion at rest.

Praise and blame are only sounds; let them pass.

Understanding causes cuts through both pride and despair.

Act without clinging and without resenting.

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

Do not mistake a mood for a verdict.

Offer steadiness to someone in distress before you offer advice.

Nothing outside can disturb a mind that rests in itself.

A good keel does not stop storms; it keeps the ship upright.

Praise and blame are borrowed opinions; don't mortgage yourself to either.

Likes and dislikes are the chains; loosen them.

Yoga is reached when neither things nor tasks hold you.

Stable inside, you can weather what is outside.

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

Let good fortune and bad both pass through you.

Pleasure and pain are visitors, not landlords.

A craving doer swings between joy and sorrow.

Calm presence speaks before the first word does.

Discomfort is a messenger, not a resident.

Peace does not have to wait for certainty.

Sorrow visits everyone; steadiness decides how long it stays.

Wisdom is not tossed about by luck.

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

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

Let wants pass through like rivers; keep your own level.

Sorrow may visit; steadiness remains the host.

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

Reaction is a habit; stillness can become one too.

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

Heat and cold pass; the one who feels them remains.

Experiences rotate; awareness stays steady.

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

Maya spins; the heart stays still.

The steady are not shaken by transitions; they have seen them before.

Patience is the art of letting passing things pass.

However you understand life, there is a way to meet it with calm.

Know your strength quietly, so others' words cannot shrink it.

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

Every small step toward steadiness is kept forever.

Which part of your work could stay unchanged, win or lose?

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

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

A deep mind absorbs wants without being moved by them.

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

The wise are not tossed by what arrives and leaves.

Wealth, fire, majesty and mountain: each is a lesson in strength.

A steady self can release what it cannot control.

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

What you can bear evenly, you can bear well.

Steady judgement is a quiet kind of freedom.

Calm is the mark of one not ruled by liking.

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.

Wisdom looks at loss with steadier eyes.

Bear the moment without making it your identity.

Whatever shakes you shows where your roots are shallow.

The knower of the eternal acts without hatred.

What cannot be dried or wetted cannot be diminished by moods.

Not every slander deserves a reply.

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

A steady mind sees the task more clearly.

Many voices pull; a still mind stays.

What would change in your day if nothing could flatter or insult you?

Calm that hides is fragile; calm that walks through the crowd lasts.

Train steadiness first; joy is a guest that follows.

Insight frees you from taking every wave personally.

A still mind can move mountains without being moved.

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.

Immortality begins in a mind that no change can topple.

Which of your reactions would you most like to steady?

Misjudgement by others is part of any serious path.

Treat victory and defeat as one teacher in two coats.

Fear weakens with every small act of steadiness.

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

Aversion binds as tightly as attraction.

Keep your kindness the same on good days and bad.

A mind that flattery cannot sway, insult cannot steer.

Where do you feel most unmovable? Start from there.

Hurtful words say more about the speaker than about you.

Calm comes from seeing that moods and actions are processes.

Beyond opposites, bondage is easy to leave.

Rise above your moods and stay good to everyone.

Goodness is steady, not picky.

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

Where does your steadiness break most easily?

Where could you try sitting back and watching today?

What shakes your steadiness most: praise, blame, or loss?

How can you stay steady through your next uncertain hour?

What shakes your calm most easily?