Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 10, Verse 5
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयशः । भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधाः
ahiṃsā samatā tuṣṭistapo dānaṃ yaśo'yaśaḥ | bhavanti bhāvā bhūtānāṃ matta eva pṛthagvidhāḥ
Translation
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.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- ahiṃsā
- harmlessness
- samatā
- equanimity
- tuṣṭiḥ
- content
- tapaḥ
- austerity
- dānam
- gift
- yaśaḥ
- fame
- ayaśaḥ
- obloquy
- bhavanti
- are
- bhāvāḥ
- natures
- bhūtānām
- of beings
- mattaḥ
- from me
- eva
- even
- pṛthagvidhāḥ
- separate, kinds, whose, they
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Innocence: not injuring living beings. Contentment: being satisfied with one's present acquisitions. Austerity: bodily torture accompanied with the restraint of the senses. Beneficence: sharing one's own things with others as far as one's own means may permit. Fame: due to dharma. Shame: due to adharma. All these different dispositions of living beings mentioned above, such as intelligence, arise from Me alone, the Lord (Īśvara), according to their respective karma.