Ashtavakra Gita 17.15Chapter 17, Verse 15
Ashtavakra Gita 17.15 is a verse from chapter 17 (The one who knows). The sage Ashtavakra speaks it to King Janaka. In plain English it says: "In pleasure and pain, man and woman, good fortune and bad, the steady one, who sees the same everywhere, finds no difference."
सुखे दुःखे नरे नार्यां सम्पत्सु च विपत्सु च ।विशेषो नैव धीरस्य सर्वत्र समदर्शिनः ॥
sukhe duḥkhe nare nāryāṃ sampatsu ca vipatsu ca |viśeṣo naiva dhīrasya sarvatra samadarśinaḥ ||
In pleasure and pain, man and woman, good fortune and bad, the steady one, who sees the same everywhere, finds no difference.
Ashtavakra, to King Janaka
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Chapter 17, The one who knows: A portrait of the free person, who wants neither pleasure nor freedom and lives at ease seeing, hearing and eating.
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