Q0302

Bhagavad Gita

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English

Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them.
Thinker Bhagavad Gita
School Hindu Philosophy
Source Bhagavad Gita 2.14
Theme Philosophy
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Bhagavad Gita 2.14, within the tradition of Hindu Philosophy. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of philosophy, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Bhagavad Gita's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Bhagavad Gita. (n.d.). Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0302

MLA: Bhagavad Gita. “Contacts with the senses give cold and heat,….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0302.

Chicago: Bhagavad Gita. “Contacts with the senses give cold and heat,….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0302.

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