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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
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pain comes and goes, like the seasons
A guided meditation on this verse: settle, breathe with its meaning, rest in silence, and carry its essence into your day.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||२-१४||
mātrāsparśāstu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ .
āgamāpāyino.anityāstāṃstitikṣasva bhārata ||2-14||
Krishna tells Arjuna: "The things your senses feel — heat and cold, pleasure and pain — they come and go like seasons. They never last. Learn to endure them without being shaken."
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मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||२-१४||
mātrāsparśāstu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ .
āgamāpāyino.anityāstāṃstitikṣasva bhārata ||2-14||
BG 2.14
Settle
Heat and cold, joy and pain come and go like weather. Find the still place in the middle of the seasons.
The essence
This too comes, and this too goes.
Breathe
You receive what has come You let it pass like weather
Contemplate
What are you treating as permanent that is only this season's weather?
Take with you
Write to yourself the words: this too will pass.