[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 2.14 · spoken by Krishna ]
Pleasure fades. Pain fades. Outlast them both.
O Kaunteya, contact between the senses and their objects gives rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go and are impermanent. Endure them, O Bharat.
SANSKRIT
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः । आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥२-१४॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“Nothing that comes and goes deserves the power to break you.”
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