In plain words
vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of malice, and freedom from excessive pride—these belong to one born for a divine disposition, Bharata.
Word for word
Vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of malice, not excessive pride: [these] are of one born toward the divine endowment, O Bhārata.
तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिताभवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत
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▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
किञ्च —
तेजः प्रागल्भ्यं न त्वग्गता दीप्तिः । क्षमा आक्रुष्टस्य ताडितस्य वा अन्तर्विक्रियानुत्पत्तिः, उत्पन्नायां विक्रियायाम् उपशमनम् अक्रोधः इति अवोचाम । इत्थं क्षमायाः अक्रोधस्य च विशेषः । धृतिः देहेन्द्रियेषु अवसादं प्राप्तेषु तस्य प्रतिषेधकः अन्तःकरणवृत्तिविशेषः, येन उत्तम्भितानि करणानि देहश्च न अवसीदन्ति । शौचं द्विविधं मृज्जलकृतं बाह्यम् आभ्यन्तरं च मनोबुद्ध्योः नैर्मल्यं मायारागादिकालुष्याभावः ; एवं द्विविधं शौचम् । अद्रोहः परजिघांसाभावः अहिंसनम् । नातिमानिता अत्यर्थं मानः अतिमानः, सः यस्य विद्यते सः अतिमानी, तद्भावः अतिमानिता, तदभावः नातिमानिता आत्मनः पूज्यतातिशयभावनाभाव इत्यर्थः । भवन्ति अभयादीनि एतदन्तानि सम्पदं अभिजातस्य । किंविशिष्टां सम्पदम् ? दैवीं देवानां या सम्पत् ताम् अभिलक्ष्य जातस्य देवविभूत्यर्हस्य भाविकल्याणस्य इत्यर्थः, हे भारत ॥ ३ ॥
In plain words
And there's more —
'Boldness' means inner vigor, not the shine on one's skin. 'Forbearance' means not letting any agitation arise inside you at all when someone insults or strikes you; but if agitation has already arisen, calming it is what we earlier called freedom from anger. That is the real difference between forbearance and freedom from anger. 'Fortitude' means a particular strength of mind that holds the body and senses up and stops them from collapsing when they've grown exhausted, so that neither the faculties nor the body itself give way. 'Purity' is of two kinds: outer purity, achieved with water and cleaning; and inner purity, the stainlessness of mind and intellect, free of the murk of deceit and attachment, so purity comes in these two forms. 'Freedom from malice' means having no wish to harm anyone, simple non-injury. 'Freedom from excessive pride' means this: an inflated sense of one's own worth is called excessive pride; someone who has it is called proud in that way; that condition itself is called excessive pride; and the absence of that condition, freedom from any inflated notion of how honorable you deserve to be, is what is meant here. All these qualities, starting with fearlessness and ending with this one, belong to someone born to the divine endowment. Which endowment is that? The one belonging to the gods, the divine one; these belong to someone born marked out for it, worthy of divine splendor, someone for whom good things lie ahead, Arjuna.
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Moreover —
'Tejas' means boldness, not the brilliance located in the skin. 'Kṣamā' means the non-arising of inner agitation when reviled or struck; or, when agitation has arisen, its calming is 'akrodha,' thus have we said. Thus is the distinction between kṣamā and akrodha. 'Dhṛti' means a specific modification of the inner organ that acts as a preventer of that collapse, when the body and senses have reached exhaustion, by which the organs, propped up, and the body, do not collapse. 'Śauca' is of two kinds: external, produced by cleaning substances and water; and internal, the spotlessness of mind and intellect, the absence of the taint of deceit, attachment, etc.; thus purity is of two kinds. 'Adroha' means the absence of the desire to harm others, non-injuriousness. 'Nātimānitā': excessive self-esteem is 'atimāna'; he in whom that exists is 'atimānī'; the state of that is 'atimānitā'; the absence of that is 'nātimānitā,' the absence of the notion of the excess of one's own worthiness of honor; that is the meaning. These, beginning with fearlessness and ending with this, belong to one born to this endowment. To what kind of endowment? To the divine, the endowment which belongs to the gods is 'daivī'; these belong to one born marked out for that, worthy of divine glory, one for whom good is to come; that is the meaning, O Bhārata. || 3 ||