अप्यापत्सु दुरन्तासु कल्पान्तेषु महत्स्वपि । तुच्छेऽहं न मनो यस्य स शान्त इति कथ्यते ॥ ७९ ॥
apyāpatsu durantāsu kalpāntēṣu mahatsvapi | tucchē’haṁ na manō yasya sa śānta iti kathyatē || 79 ||
Translation
One whose mind, even in calamities hard to end, even at the great ends of ages, does not say 'I' to the trivial, is called peaceful.
Word by word
- api
- even
- āpatsu
- in calamities
- durantāsu
- hard to end
- kalpāntēṣu
- at the ends of ages
- mahatsu
- great
- tucchē
- to the trivial
- ahaṁ
- I
- na
- not
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- yasya
- one whose
- sa
- that one
- śānta
- (śāntaḥ) peaceful
- iti
- thus
- kathyatē
- is called
Meaning
Tucche 'ham, the sense of I in what is trivial: the commentary explains, in the perishable body and the like. It takes a moment to see how far this goes. It is the sense of 'I' in the body that makes calamity into calamity. So the cure is not courage. It is that what is threatened is no longer thought to be oneself.