Taken from: http://www.pinkthunder.com/pinkthunder/2005/09/the_ideal_bride.html
A reading from the Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna to krishna: What kind of human beings do you find ideal??
Krishna:
The one I love is incapable of ill will,
is friendly and compassionate. Living
beyond the reach of I and mine and of pleasure
and pain, patient, contented, self-controlled,
firm in faith, with all his heart and all his mind
given to me – with such a one I am in love.
Not agitating the world or by it agitated, he
stands above the sway of elation, competition,
and fear – he is my beloved.
He is detached, pure, efficient, impartial,
never anxious, selfless in all his undertakings;
he is my devotee, and very dear to me.
That devotee who looks upon friend and foe
with equal regard, who is not buoyed up by
praise nor cast down by blame, alike in hot
and cold, pleasure and pain, free from selfish
attachments, the same in honor and dishonor,
quiet, ever full, in harmony everywhere and firm
in faith – such a one is dear to me.
