Suffering & Resilience

Titikṣā — enduring the dualities — 32 verses, starred ones first.

1. 2.62 ★ Thinking → clinging → craving → anger. The chain of suffering begins in where you let your mind dwell.
2. 6.6 ★ Your own mind is your best friend when mastered; your worst enemy when not.
3. 12.13 ★ Not hating, friendly, compassionate, without 'mine' or 'I', equal in pain and joy, forgiving — the dear devotee!
4. 4.24 ☆ Instrument, offering, fire, act, destination — all Brahman. One absorbed in Brahman-action reaches Brahman alone.
5. 6.7 ☆ The self-conquered yogi finds the Supreme Self equally present through cold, heat, joy, pain, honour and dishonour.
6. 6.23 ☆ Yoga is the disconnection from suffering — practise it with firm resolve and a mind that does not despond.
7. 6.32 ☆ Who measures others' joy and pain by the standard of their own — seeing the same everywhere — is the supreme yogi.
8. 1.3 Duryodhana points to the enemy army and subtly reminds his teacher of a painful irony.
9. 2.5 Better a beggar's life than pleasures paid for with my teachers' blood.
10. 2.14 Heat and cold, pleasure and pain — they come and go. Learn to endure them without being swept away.
11. 2.15 The person unmoved by pleasure and pain is fit for liberation — equanimity is not coldness but freedom.
12. 2.36 Your enemies will mock your strength — what pain is greater than that?
13. 2.38 Treat pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as equal — then engage. No sin follows from this.
14. 2.65 In prasāda (inner clarity), all suffering falls away. The serene mind's wisdom becomes swiftly established.
15. 5.3 The eternal renunciant neither desires nor hates — free from all opposites, easily freed from bondage.
16. 5.6 Renunciation without yoga is painful to achieve — the yoga-joined muni attains Brahman swiftly.
17. 6.17 Regulate food, recreation, effort and sleep — and yoga becomes the destroyer of all pain.
18. 7.27 All beings fall into complete delusion at birth — through the dvandva-moha arising from desire and aversion.
19. 8.15 The great-souled who reach the highest perfection and come to Me are not reborn in this home of pain and impermanence.
20. 10.4 Intellect, wisdom, patience, truth, calm, restraint, joy, pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness — all arise from Me.
21. 10.33 Among letters I am A; among compounds, the dvandva; I am inexhaustible Time; the all-facing Sustainer.
22. 12.18 Equal to enemy and friend, honor and dishonor, cold and heat, pleasure and pain — free from all attachment!
23. 13.7 Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the body, consciousness, courage — all this with its modifications is the kṣetra!
24. 13.9 Dispassion toward sense-objects, no ego, and clearly seeing birth-death-age-disease as painful — this is jñāna!
25. 13.21 Prakṛti is the cause of action; puruṣa is the cause of experiencing pleasure and pain in the field.
26. 14.24 Equal in pleasure-pain, clod-stone-gold, agreeable-disagreeable, censure-praise — the guṇātīta abides in self.
27. 16.11 Immeasurable anxieties till death, sense-pleasure as the highest value, firmly certain that 'this is all there is.'
28. 17.9 Rājasic food: bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry, burning — loved by the rājasic; yields pain, grief, disease.
29. 18.36 Hear the three-fold happiness from Me, O Bharata-bull — learned through practice, leading to the end of pain.
30. 18.37 Sāttvic sukha: poison-like at first, nectar-like at the end — born of the clarity of Self-knowing intellect.
31. 18.38 Rājasic sukha: arises from sense-object contact — nectar-like at first, poison-like at the end.
32. 18.52 Frequenting solitude, eating lightly, restraining speech-body-mind, always in dhyāna-yoga, fully in vairāgya —