Bhagavad Gita 10.4
बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसम्मोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः | सुखं दुःखं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च ||
buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ kṣamā satyaṁ damaḥ śamaḥ | sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo'bhāvo bhayaṁ cābhayam eva ca ||
Translation
Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from delusion, patience, truth, control of the senses, calm, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, and fearlessness.
Reflection
Where do you confuse the source with what the source holds?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Ten
The first half of a long list begins. Twenty inner conditions are about to be named, and the claim attached to them will follow in the next verse. The list pairs opposites on purpose. Knowledge and freedom from delusion sit beside fear and fearlessness, pleasure beside pain, birth beside death. Krishna is not collecting only the bright qualities. He is naming the whole spectrum of what arises in a human life of mind and body. The reader who expects only the favourable items will be corrected. The source the chapter is identifying does not show up only in the pleasant states. The unpleasant items come from the same place. The catalogue is doing groundwork. The point will land on the next page.