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Bhagavad Gita 13.9

असक्ितरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु।नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु॥

asakिtaranabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putradāragṛhādiṣu |nityaṃ ca samacittatvamiṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu ||

Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant even-mindedness in the face of the attainment of both desirable and undesirable.

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

Indifference, non-attachment to sex, progeny, or home, equanimity in both good fortune and bad;

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.