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maitrī-karuṇā-muditā-upekṣānāṃ sukha-duḥkha-puṇya-apuṇya-viṣayāṇāṃ bhāvanātaḥ citta-prasādanam

मैत्रीकरुणामुदितोपेक्षाणां सुखदुःखपुण्यापुण्यविषयाणां भावनातः चित्तप्रसादनम्

The psyche can be calmed by cultivating as an object friendliness, compassion, gladness and disinterest within happiness, suffering, virtue and vice

maitrī - friendliness, good will

karuṇā - compassion, pity

muditā - gladness; rejoicing in, delighted; joyful

upekṣā - disinterest, overlooking, disregard, indifference

sukha - pleasure; happiness; agreeable; ease; comfortable; pleasant

duḥkha - suffering, pain, sorrowful

puṇya - propitious; virtuous; meritorious

apuṇya - non-meritorious; wicked; unvirtuous

viṣaya - object

bhāvana - cultivation; imagining, fancying; forming in the mind; to occupy one's imagination with

citta - psyche (the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious); mind; heart

prasādana - calming

Commentary by T Krishnamacharya:

“Bhāvana is a beneficial attitude that is consciously cultivated despite tendencies to the contrary.”

Commentary by Paul Harvey:

Maitrī “Cultivating a feeling of friendliness towards our own attempts, let alone other’s demands, to distract ourselves.”