Verse 10.4
बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसम्मोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः ।
सुखं दुःखं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च ॥
Transliteration
buddhirjñānamasammohaḥ kṣamā satyaṃ damaḥ śamaḥ |
sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ bhavo'bhāvo bhayaṃ cābhayameva ca ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, pain, existence or birth, non-existence or death, fear and also fearlessness.
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Understanding, knowledge, freedom from confusion, patience, truth, self-restraint and calm, pleasure and pain, being and not being, fear and also fearlessness,
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna begins a list of the inner states found in living beings, and the list runs into the next verse. It mixes qualities one would expect a divine source to give, such as understanding (buddhi), knowledge (jñāna), patience and truthfulness, with conditions that seem at odds with them, such as pain, non-being and fear. The pairing is deliberate. Krishna is not handing out only the pleasant states; he is saying that the whole range of experience, bright and dark, arises in dependence on him. This prepares for the chapter's larger claim that nothing in the world stands outside the divine.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08