Bhagavad Gita 16.2
अहिंसा सत्यमक्रोधस्त्यागः शान्तिरपैशुनम् । दया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम् ॥
ahiṁsā satyam akrodhas tyāgaḥ śāntir apaiśunam dayā bhūteṣv aloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīr acāpalam
Translation
Non-injury, truth, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, absence of slander, compassion to beings, freedom from covetousness, gentleness, modesty, absence of fickleness;
Reflection
Where in conversation today did one of these eleven virtues slip, and which one would have steadied the moment?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Sixteen
Second verse adds the relational gates. Ahimsa is no-harm in thought first, then word, then act. Satya names alignment between seeing and saying. Akrodha is not absence of fire but refusal to let fire run the controls. Tyaga is letting fruit drop without checking who claps. Shanti settles the chest. Apaishunam closes the slander circuit. Daya softens vision toward every body. Aloluptvam keeps craving from grabbing. Mardavam puts iron in a velvet glove. Hri is healthy reserve about disclosure of inner failings. Achapalam is steady stance under provocation. Krishna stacks these in a row because they ride together. Practice one cleanly and the next becomes possible. Skip one and the whole stack wobbles.