"For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquility. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same." Bg 6.7
"Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome, or out of fear, is said to be in the mode of passion. Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation." Bg 18.8
Because those who are in the mode of goodness are as this: "Those who are situated in the mode of goodness, who neither hate inauspicious work nor are attached to auspicious work, have no doubts about work." Bg 18.10
From chapter 12, Devotional service section:"One who neither grasps pleasure or grief, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things, is very dear to Me." Bg 12.17
"One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equiposed in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and engaged in devotional service, is very dear to Me." Bg 12.18-19
The 18th chapter of B.gita is the crown of all teachings indeed. The perfection of renunciation. It is so glorious, I need to study it again and again. It is so deep. Btw, I have recently finished reading B.gita and started reading it again from the beginning, this time including chanting verses in sanskrit and reading synonyms.
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