Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 22

यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः । समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते

yadṛcchālābhasantuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ | samaḥ siddhāvasiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate

Translation

Satisfied with what comes to him by chance, rising above the pairs of opposites, free from envy, equanimous in success and failure, though acting he is not bound.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

yadṛcchālābhasantuṣṭaḥ

by chance, with gain, contented

dvandvātītaḥ

the pairs, gone beyond

vimatsaraḥ

un-envious

samaḥ

equal

siddhau

in success

asiddhau

in non-success

ca

and

kṛtvā

having done

api

even

na

not

nibadhyate

is bound

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

He who is satisfied with whatever he may obtain by chance, without his effort or request, who is not affected in mind by the attack of such pairs of opposites (dvandva) as heat and cold, who cherishes no feelings of envy and jealousy, who is calm whether he obtains or not such things as might come to him without effort — such a devotee, feeling no pleasure or pain whether he obtains or not food and other things required for the maintenance of the body, seeing action in inaction and vice versa, ever steady in his knowledge of the true nature of the Self, always disowning agency — "I do nothing at all, energies act upon energies" — though he performs the act of begging and the like required for the bare existence of the body, he is not bound, since action and its cause, which are the source of bondage, have been burnt in the fire of wisdom.