Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 14
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 2 श्लोक 14

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत।।2.14।।



English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
2.14. O son of Kunti !  But the touches with the matras cause the [feelings of] cold and heat,  pleasure and pain; they are of the nature of coming and going and are transient.  Forbear them,  O Descendent of Bharata !


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
2.14 Matra etc.  But the unwise lament even over those passing situations of cold and heat, pleasure and pain that are created by those touches i.e., the contacts of the sense-objects-referable with the term matra - with the Soul through the door of the sense-organs; but the wise do not do so.  Thus says [the Lord]. 
Or, the passage may be interpreted as :  The touches (contacts) of these objects are with the matras, i.e., with the sense-organs, and not directly with the Supreme Self,  Coming : birth.  Going : destruction, Those situations that have these two you must forbear i.e., put up with.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 2.14Maatraasparshaastu kaunteya sheetoshnasukhaduhkhadaah;
Aagamaapaayino’nityaas taamstitikshaswa bhaarata.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 2.14mātrā-sparśhāḥ—contact of the senses with the sense objects; tu—indeed; kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti; śhīta—winter; uṣhṇa—summer; sukha—happiness; duḥkha—distress; dāḥ—give; āgama—come; apāyinaḥ—go; anityāḥ—non-permanent; tān—them; titikṣhasva—tolerate; bhārata—descendant of the Bharat