Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Samatva

समत्व · samatva

evenness of mind

Remaining the same in success and failure, pleasure and pain, honour and insult. Krishna gives it as a definition of yoga itself. It is not indifference: the even-minded person still acts, and acts well, but is not thrown about by how things turn out. The Gita returns to it in nearly every chapter as the mark of the wise.

Appears in

Bhagavad Gita 2.38 · Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · Bhagavad Gita 6.9 · Bhagavad Gita 12.18