Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume -3, Issue - 9, 1 March 2019 | Page 2

FROM THE DESK
य: सवर्त्रानिभस्नेहस्तत्तत्प्राप्य शुभाशुभम् |
नािभनन्दित न द्वे िष्ट तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रितिष्ठता || 2.57||
yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śhubhāśhubham
nābhinandati na dveṣhṭi tasya pragyā pratiṣhṭhitā|| 2.57||
yaḥ—who; sarvatra—in all conditions; anabhisnehaḥ—unattached; tat
—that; tat—that; prāpya—attaining; śhubha—good; aśhubham—evil; na
—neither; abhinandati—delight in; na—nor; dveṣhṭi—dejected by; tasya
—his; pragya—knowledge; pratiṣhṭhitā—is fixed
One who remains unattached under all conditions, and is
neither delighted by good fortune nor dejected by tribulation,
he is a sage with perfect knowledge. BhagvadGeeta 2.57
I would like to explain this beautiful verse through one
of my favourite poem. “IF” This is my light for life. I
remember reading it for the first time and then I
brought a chart Paper wrote it in big letters with much
decoration and put it on my wall to read it every day. I
am not over it yet.
Written by Rudyard Kipling, a famous British poet,. He
has encapsulated the essence of this verse on Sthita
pragya (Sage of steady intelligence) so aptly and
beautifully in it.:
If—
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;