Q0412

Bhagavad Gita

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English

Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them.
Thinker Bhagavad Gita
School Indian Classical Philosophy
Source Bhagavad Gita 2.14
Theme Endurance
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Bhagavad Gita 2.14, within the tradition of Indian Classical 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 endurance, 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, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0412

MLA: Bhagavad Gita. “Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti,….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0412.

Chicago: Bhagavad Gita. “Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti,….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0412.

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  1. You have a right to action alone, never to its fruits.
  2. Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them.
  3. One should lift oneself by the Self and not degrade oneself; for the Self alone is friend and enemy of the self.
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  5. One should lift oneself by oneself; one should not degrade oneself.

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More on endurance

  1. Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how'.
  2. Know contentment, and you will not be disgraced; know when to stop, and you will not be imperiled — thus you can endure.
  3. Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them.
  4. When exhausted, change; when changing, one gets through; when getting through, one endures.

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