Śabda No. 10
Om śānti śānti śāntiḥ.
“…for one who lacks peace, where is the happiness?”
We say śānti three times at the end of a prayer. The Gītā asks one question: for one without peace, where is happiness?
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना।
न चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम्।।
nāsti buddhir-ayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā na cābhāvayataḥ śāntir aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham
There is no Buddhi for the unintegrated, nor is there contemplation of the self for him, and without contemplation of the self, there is no peace; and for one who lacks peace, where is the happiness?
2.66 is verse 113 of 700, and verse 66 of 72 in chapter 2.
Śānti (peace), in any form, appears in 8 verses of the 700, first at 2.66 and last at 18.62.
2.66 falls under the speaker label of Kṛṣṇa.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Śānti is the word said three times at the end of a prayer, and 2.66 asks what peace depends on. For the person who is not integrated, it says, there is no settled understanding and no contemplation of the self, and without contemplation there is no peace. And for one who lacks peace, where is happiness? The verse before, 2.65, says that in serenity all sorrow is lost. The verse after, 2.67, describes the opposite: when the mind follows the roaming senses, it carries away the understanding, as the wind carries a ship on the water. Together the three verses form a chain. A settled mind leads to peace, peace to happiness, and a mind dragged along by the senses loses all of it. The Gītā's own question is a plain one, and it can be answered by looking at your own state. The passage is in chapter 2.