Verse 2.38

Verse 2.38: “Make pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, a matter of indifference, and thereafter engage in combat: that way thou shalt incur no sin. (226)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Do not exult to find happy things nor be downcast at calamities. Never count in your mind consequences as gain or loss. Never think beforehand whether there will be victory or death. Bear patiently the consequences whatever they might be after acting according to what you consider proper as your own duty. In this way, be of firm mind and then naturally there will be no touch of sin in your action. Therefore be now prepared for fighting entertaining no doubt whatever.