Bhagavad Gita 14.25 Meaning: Manapamanayostulyastulyo

Bhagavad Gita 14.25

मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः ।सर्वारंभपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते ॥

Manapamanayostulyastulyo mitraripakshayohSarvarambhaparityagi gunatitah sa uchyate

mānāpamānayostulyastulyo mitrāripakṣayoḥ |sarvāraṃbhaparityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa ucyate ||

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Our explanation Such a person, Krishna says, is the same in honour and dishonour, the same towards the side of friends and the side of foes, and has given up every undertaking. Such a person is said to have gone beyond the guṇas (guṇātīta).

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि ऐसा व्यक्ति मान और अपमान में समान है, मित्र और शत्रु के पक्ष में समान है, और उसने सब आरंभों (नए कामों की शुरुआत) का त्याग कर दिया है। ऐसा व्यक्ति गुणातीत (गुणों से परे) कहलाता है।

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मानापमानयोः mānāpamānayoḥ · in honour and dishonour (compound (masculine), locative dual) Dictionary: 1. māna, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 809, col. 1 “consideration, regard, respect, honour”; apa-māna, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 50, col. 2 “disrespect, contempt, disgrace”
तुल्यः tulyaḥ · the same (adjective (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: tulya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 451, col. 3 “equal to, of the same kind or class or number or value, similar, comparable, like”
तुल्यः tulyaḥ · the same (adjective (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: tulya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 451, col. 3 “equal to, of the same kind or class or number or value, similar, comparable, like”
मित्रारिपक्षयोः mitrāripakṣayoḥ · towards the side of friends and of foes (compound (masculine), locative dual) Dictionary: 1. mitra, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 816, col. 1 “a friend, companion, associate”; 2. a-ri, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 87, col. 3 “an enemy”; pakṣa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 573, col. 3 “a side, party, faction”
सर्वारंभपरित्यागी sarvāraṃbhaparityāgī · who gives up every undertaking (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: sarva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1184, col. 3 “whole, entire, all, every”; ā-rambha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 150, col. 1 “undertaking, beginning”; pari-tyāgin, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 595, col. 2 “leaving, quitting, forsaking, renouncing (mostly ifc.)”
गुणातीतः guṇātītaḥ · gone beyond the guṇas (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: guṇa, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 357, col. 1 “(in Sāṃkhya phil.) an ingredient or constituent of Prakṛiti, chief quality of all existing beings”; atīta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 16, col. 2 “one who has gone through or got over or beyond”
सः saḥ · he (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
उच्यते ucyate · is called (present passive, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: vac, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 912, col. 1 “to be called or accounted, be regarded as”

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Spelling A digital text reads Same word. The e-text writes the class nasal (सर्वारम्भ); the 1922 edition writes anusvara (सर्वारंभ).

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