Balance is medicine for sorrow.

Here Krishna gives the positive form of the previous verse's warning, and the repeated word yukta — 'measured, balanced, well-yoked' — becomes the key. The one whose eating and recreation (ahara-vihara), whose effort in work (cheshta), and whose sleep and waking are all yukta finds that yoga becomes duhkha-ha — the very destroyer of sorrow.

This is a striking promise. Yoga is not just a discipline that brings occasional peace; rightly practiced upon a foundation of balance, it dissolves suffering at its root. And the foundation is astonishingly ordinary: how we eat, rest, work, and play.

Spiritual freedom is not divorced from daily habits but built upon them. A life lived in measured rhythm becomes fertile ground for the deepest transformation. The Gita thus dignifies the small, repeated choices of everyday living as the real terrain where liberation from sorrow is won.