The truly learned see with equal vision a brahmin adorned with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog or an outcaste who cooks dogs.
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The Bhagavad Gita, translated and commentated by S. Radhakrishnan, is one of the most scholarly and accessible English renderings of Hinduism's most beloved scripture — the dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, brings both rigorous intellectual insight and genuine spiritual depth to his translation and notes. This edition is treasured for its ability to illuminate the Gita's universal spiritual teaching across cultural and philosophical boundaries.
- Author
- Krishna
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chapter
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5
- Verse / page
- BG.5.18
- Topics
- EqualitySelf-RealisationWisdom
Same theme, different voices
Treat pleasure and pain equally, gain and loss equally, victory and defeat equally — then engage in battle. In this way you will not incur sin.
One cannot be truly religious unless they have equal reverence and regard for all other religions.
The soul should be equally detached from all earthly things, just as the heavens are equally distant from the earth.
There is no distinction of quality in God; in His divine majesty, I, you, we, and he have the same meaning, for in unity there is no division.
Treat the entire human race as equal and without any distinctions of class.