Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 16-19 from the Twelfth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".

🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verse 16: अनपेक्ष: शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथ: | सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्त: स मे प्रिय: ||16|| anapekṣhaḥ śhuchir dakṣha udāsīno gata-vyathaḥ sarvārambha-parityāgī yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ ||16|| 🔴

Desireless, pure, resourceful, unattached, unworried and without any sense of self-centered agency -- a devotee thus endowed is dear to Me.

🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verse 17: यो न हृष्यति न द्वेष्टि न शोचति न काङ् क्षति | शुभाशुभपरित्यागी भक्तिमान्य: स मे प्रिय: ||17|| yo na hṛiṣhyati na dveṣhṭi na śhochati na kāṅkṣhati śhubhāśhubha-parityāgī bhaktimān yaḥ sa me priyaḥ ||17|| 🔴 He who is free from elation, anger, sorrow, and craving, who neither seeks the pleasant nor shuns the unpleasant -- dear to Me is the man who is thus devoted.

🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12 Verses 18 -19: सम: शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयो: | शीतोष्णसुखदु:खेषु सम: सङ्गविवर्जित: ||18|| तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिर्मौनी सन्तुष्टो येन केनचित् | अनिकेत: स्थिरमतिर्भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नर: ||19|| samaḥ śhatrau cha mitre cha tathā mānāpamānayoḥ śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣhu samaḥ saṅga-vivarjitaḥ ||18|| tulya-nindā-stutir maunī santuṣhṭo yena kenachit aniketaḥ sthira-matir bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ ||19|| 🔴 Alike to friend and foe, alike in honor and insult, alike in heat and cold, alike in praise and blame -- unattached, contented, homeless, and steady in mind -- dear to Me is a man who is thus devoted.