Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 18

समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः । शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः

samaḥ śatrau ca mitre ca tathā mānāpamānayoḥ | śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu samaḥ saṅgavivarjitaḥ

Translation

He who is the same to foe and friend, and also in honor and dishonor: who is the same in cold and heat, in pleasure and pain: who is free from attachment: to whom censure and praise are equal: who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion: that man is dear to Me.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

samaḥ

equal

śatrau

(to) the enemy

ca

and

mitre

(to) the friend

ca

and

tathā

also

mānāpamānayoḥ

in fame, and, in ignominy, and

śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu

in cold, and, in heat, and, in pleasure, and, in pain, and

samaḥ

equal

saṅgavivarjitaḥ

from attachment, freed

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

He has no attachment for objects of any kind. He is content with the bare means of bodily sustenance. It is said in the Mahābhārata: "Who is glad with anything, who is not at any food, who lies down anywhere — him the Gods call a brāhmaṇa." (Śānti-parva, Mokṣa-Dharma, 245.12).