Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]Content with whatever comes unasked, beyond the pairs of opposites, free from envy, balanced in success and failure — though acting, he is not bound.
BG 4.22
यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सरः । समः सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते ॥
yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ | samaḥ siddhāv asiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate ||
"Content with what comes by chance, beyond opposites, free from envy — equal in success and failure, not bound."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Content with what comes without effort, beyond the pairs of opposites, free from envy, equal in success and failure — though acting, he is not bound.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]He is satisfied with whatever he may chance to receive; he is not affected by the pairs of opposites; he is free from envy; in success and failure he is the same — he is not bound even while acting.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Who is content with whatever comes to him by chance, Having passed beyond the pairs of opposites, free from envy, Equal in success and failure — though he acts, he is not bound.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Content with whatever comes to him unasked, who has passed beyond the pairs of opposites, who is free from envy, even-minded in success and failure — though acting, he is not bound.