Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita on Anxiety and Equanimity
The Gita does not use the modern clinical word “anxiety.” It does speak about sorrow, agitation of the senses, and the possibility of remaining steady when pleasant and painful conditions come and go.
These pages connect traditional verses to a contemporary question. They are reading guides, not medical or spiritual advice, and they do not claim Krishna used later psychological terms.
Bhagavad Gita 2.14
Asks Arjuna to endure changing contacts of the senses—heat and cold, pleasure and pain—because they arise and pass.
O son of Kunti! The contact of the senses with their objects, which gives rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain, has a beginning and an end; they are impermanent. Therefore, O Bharata! Endure them.
Bhagavad Gita 2.47
Separates the duty to act from clinging to results, a common source of agitation.
You have the right to action only, never to its fruits. Do not be the cause of the fruits of action, nor let attachment to inaction arise in you.
Bhagavad Gita 2.48
Defines yoga as evenness in success and failure while acting.
O Dhananjaya! Abandoning attachment and remaining equipoised in success and failure, perform action established in Yoga. This equipoise is called Yoga.
Bhagavad Gita 6.35
Acknowledges that the mind is restless and says it can be restrained by practice and dispassion.
Shri Bhagavan said: O mighty-armed one! Without doubt the mind is restless and difficult to control; but, O son of Kunti! it can be subdued by practice and dispassion.
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