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
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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.
When a child is born, there is no symbol to indicate that it belongs to a particular religion or caste. The distinction of man is only that he is man. It is the same divine light that dwells in every human being. It is therefore essential that after taking birth as a human being one must behave like a human being.
The soul should be equally detached from all earthly things, just as the heavens are equally distant from the earth.
In God's divine majesty, there is no distinction of quality; I, thou, and we will not be found.