कृच्छ्रेषु दूरास्तविषादमोहाः स्वास्थ्येषु नोत्सिक्तमनोभिरामाः । सुदुर्लभाः सम्प्रति सुन्दरीभि- रनाहतान्तःकरणा महान्तः ॥ ८ ॥
kṛcchrēṣu dūrāstaviṣādamōhāḥ svāsthyēṣu nōtsiktamanōbhirāmāḥ | sudurlabhāḥ samprati sundarībhi- ranāhatāntaḥkaraṇā mahāntaḥ || 8 ||
Translation
Those who have cast far off sorrow and delusion in hardship, who are not puffed up in prosperity, whose hearts are not struck by beautiful women: such great ones are very hard to find now.
Word by word
- kṛcchrēṣu
- in hardship
- dūra
- far off
- asta
- who have cast
- viṣāda
- sorrow
- mōhāḥ
- and delusion
- svāsthyēṣu
- in prosperity
- na
- not
- utsikta
- puffed up
- manōbhirāmāḥ
- who are
- sudurlabhāḥ
- very hard to find
- samprati
- now
- sundarībhir
- (sundarībhiḥ) by beautiful women
- anāhata
- not struck
- antaḥkaraṇā
- (antaḥkaraṇāḥ) whose hearts are
- mahāntaḥ
- great ones
Meaning
Here the sarga begins a series of portraits of what is rare. The great one is unshaken by misfortune, unproud in good fortune, and untouched by beauty. the commentaries agree. The equanimity of the Gītā's sthita-prajña, steady in both pleasure and pain, is meant. The reader is shown the ideal by its rarity.