Bhagavad Gita 6.7 · BG 6.7
Chapter 6Verse 7
Dhyana Yoga
जितात्मनः प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहितः। शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु तथा मानापमानयोः॥
jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ, śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ
Translation
For one who has mastered the mind and is at peace, the Supreme Self stays steady and present, through cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor alike.
When your mind is steady, praise and insult land the same way. Neither one runs you.
What does this mean?
Once the mind is actually under your control, the outside stuff loses its power to swing you around. Heat and cold, a good week and a bad one, praise and insult all land on steadier ground. It's not that any of it stops happening. It just stops running the show.
In simple words
Krishna says that for someone who's actually got their mind under control and is at peace, the deepest part of them stays steady and present no matter what's happening outside, cold or heat, comfort or pain, praise or insult. The events still happen. They just stop running the show.
The deeper idea
The verse pairs an inner achievement with an outer result. The achievement is a mastered, peaceful mind. The result is that the deepest, steadiest layer of you stays established through all the usual pairs of opposites. Honor and dishonor are included alongside heat and cold on purpose, social standing is treated as just another swinging condition. What changes isn't the world's behavior. It's whether it can reach the center.
How it applies to life
Praise and criticism are the clearest test. Most people are visibly lifted by one and wounded by the other, which means both are effectively in charge. This verse describes a state where a compliment and an insult land on the same steady ground and neither one takes over. That's not indifference to feedback. It's that your footing isn't for sale, and it's built by working on the mind, not by pretending the words didn't sting.