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Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, truth, self-restraint, calmness, happiness, pain, existence or birth, non-existence or death, fear and also fearlessness.

Understanding, knowledge, freedom from confusion, patience, truth, self-restraint and calm, pleasure and pain, being and not being, fear and also fearlessness,

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.