Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 10: The Divine Glories

Bhagavad Gita 10.4

buddhirjñānamasaṃmohaḥ kṣamā satyaṃ damaḥ śamaḥ | sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ bhavo'bhāvo bhayaṃ cābhayameva ca ||

Understanding, knowledge, freedom from delusion, patience, truthfulness, self-control, and calm; pleasure and pain, coming to be and ceasing to be, fear and fearlessness;

Modern context

This verse and the next list the inner states that arise in people: understanding, patience, truthfulness, calm, but also pain, fear and ceasing to be. Both the welcome and the unwelcome are named, and all come from one source. This is not a list of virtues to admire. It is a reminder that every state we pass through, including the painful ones, belongs to something larger and is not a sign that we have been abandoned.