Chapter 10, Verse 5
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः। भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः।।10.5।।
ahiṃsā samatā tuṣṭistapo dānaṃ yaśo'yaśaḥ। bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṃ matta eva pṛthagvidhāḥ।।10.5।।
Word by word
- अहिंसा
- nonviolence
- समता
- equanimity/sameness
- तुष्टिः
- contentment
- तपः
- austerity
- दानम्
- charity/giving
- यशः
- fame
- अयशः
- infamy
- भवन्ति
- arise/come into being
- भावाः
- states/qualities (of being)
- भूतानाम्
- of living beings
- मत्तः
- from Me
- एव
- alone/indeed
- पृथक्-विधाः
- of various kinds
Commentary
4-5. Intelligence, wisdom, non-illusion, patience, truth, self-restraint, calmness, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, and security ; innocence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, beneficence, fame, shame, (these) different kinds of dispositions of beings arise from Me alone.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain (verses 4-5 discussed as one combined teaching in the source)
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