Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 54
ब्रह्मभूतः प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ्क्षति । समः सर्वेषु भूतेषु मद्भक्तिं लभते पराम्
brahmabhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati | samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu madbhaktiṃ labhate parām
Translation
Becoming Brahman, of serene self, he neither grieves nor desires, treating all beings alike; he attains supreme devotion to Me.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- brahmabhūtaḥ
- Brahman-become
- prasannātmā
- tranquil, self, whose, he
- na
- not
- śocati
- grieves
- na
- not
- kāṅkṣati
- desires
- samaḥ
- equal
- sarveṣu
- among all
- bhūteṣu
- among beings
- madbhaktim
- in me, devotion
- labhate
- obtains
- parām
- highest
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
He who has reached Brahman and attained self-serenity does not grieve regarding his failure to accomplish an object or regarding his wants. Such a devotee to wisdom attains highest devotion to Me, the Supreme Lord — the fourth or highest of the four kinds of devotion, viz., the Devotion of Knowledge, spoken of in vii.16.