Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 2: The Path of Understanding
Bhagavad Gita 2.11
अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे ।
गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ॥
aśocyānanvaśocastvaṃ prajñāvādāṃśca bhāṣase | gatāsūnagatāsūṃśca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ ||
You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, and yet you speak words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the dead nor for the living.
Modern context
The teaching proper begins here, and it begins with grief. Krishna says: you speak like a wise man, yet you mourn what the wise do not mourn. He does not mean that the wise are cold. He means that their love is not founded on the fear of loss, because they understand what a person really is.