Gita 14.24 To be equipoised, be situated in the self, not in the world

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Bhagavad Gita 14.24 yodhirastulya-nindātmasamsthih Here Krishna is continuing his description of the characteristics of those who have transcended the modes. In the previous two verses he described their internal characteristics.
kairlingais That was the question that was answered. kairlingais What were the characteristics? 14.21 Arjuna had asked. Now in 24 and 25 he answers kim ācāra? What is their behavior? So if you are observing someone, if you are observing ourselves, we can look at our consciousness and understand whether someone has transcended the modes or not.
If we are looking at others it’s not easy to understand what people’s consciousness is at. So we can perceive their internal so we can perceive their external behavior. So kim ācāra means what is their behavior? So here one point to describe equanimity sama-duḥkha-sukha-svastha so one equifies sama in happiness and distress sva-sthaha so sva means self sthaha is situated they are situated in oneself sama-loṣṭhā-śmakāñca they see earth they see mud, stone and gold equally tulya-priya-priyo-dhīras they see the desirable and undesirable equally they are tulya equifies towards that tulya-linda-ātma-saṁsthati and they treat criticism and praise equally so equanimity