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Bhagavad Gita 12.16

अनपेक्षः शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथः।सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः॥

anapekṣaḥ śucirdakṣa udāsīno gatavyathaḥ |sarvārambhaparityāgī yo madbhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ ||

He who is free from wants, pure, expert, unconcerned, and free from pain, renouncing all undertakings and commencements, he who is devoted to Me is dear to Me.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

He who expects nothing, is pure, watchful, indifferent, unruffled, and renounces all initiative—such a one is My beloved.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 12.16 · Vidya