BG 2.56

दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः । वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥

duḥkheṣv anudvigna-manāḥ sukheṣu vigata-spṛhaḥ | vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthita-dhīr munir ucyate ||

"Unmoved in sorrow, ungreedy in joy, free from passion, fear, and anger — that is the steady sage."

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5 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)

[1]
He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not crave pleasures in prosperity, who is free from passion, fear, and wrath — he is called a steadfast sage.

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
One whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after pleasures, and who is free from attachment, fear, and anger — is called a muni of steady wisdom.

William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)

[6]
He who is undisturbed in sorrow, who is without longing in pleasure, from whom passion, fear, and anger have passed away — such a one is called a sage of steady mind.

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]
Who, if the dreaded thunderbolt fall, Quakes not, who when the sweet things of the world Delight not, being thus exempt from joy And grief, from heat and cold, from love and hate — Has ransom'd himself: 'Steadfast of soul.'

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
One whose mind is not troubled in misfortune, who in prosperity is free from longing, from whom passion, fear, and anger have departed — such a steady-minded one is called a sage.