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Bhagavad Gita 14.22

श्री भगवानुवाच · śrī bhagavānuvāca

प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति॥

prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava |na dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati ||

The Blessed Lord said, "When light, activity, and delusion are present, he does not hate them, nor does he long for them when they are absent.

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

Lord Shri Krishna replied: O Prince! He who does not shun the quality that is present and does not long for that which is absent;

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 14.22 · SatsangVidya