Sthitaprajna
sthitaprajñaThe person of "steady wisdom": the Gita's portrait of what practice looks like when it has soaked all the way in.
Arjuna asks the question every practical person eventually asks: fine, but what is such a person actually like?
Arjuna said: What, O Keshava, is the description of the man of steady wisdom, merged in Samdhi? How (on the other hand) does the man of steady wisdom speak, how sit, how walk?
The original Sanskrit
arjuna uvāca sthita-prajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhi-sthasya keśava | sthita-dhīḥ kiṃ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim
And Krishna answers with a portrait rather than a doctrine:
The Blessed Lord said: When a man completely casts away, O Prtha, all the desires of the mind, satisfied in the Self alone by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom.
The original Sanskrit
śrī-bhagavān uvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān | ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthita-prajñas tadocyate
He whose mind is free from anxiety amid pains, indifferent amid pleasures, loosed from passion, fear and anger, is called a sage of stable mind.
The original Sanskrit
duḥkheṣv anudvigna-manāḥ sukheṣu vigata-spṛhaḥ | vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhaḥ sthita-dhīr munir ucyate
Unshaken in trouble, unclutched in pleasure. The Gita's measure of progress is not flexibility or bliss; it is how you weather an ordinary difficult week.