| 24. He to whom
pain and pleasure are alike, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth
and stone and gold are alike, to whom the dear and the under are alike who
is a man of wisdom to whom censure and praise are same ; The Selfknowing
samnyasin, like a neutral man who inclines to neither party, treads firmly
the path by which he seeks to rise above the gunas ; he does not swerve
from the state of discrimination. This is made clearer by what follows next:
the gunas transforming themselves into the body, senses and senseobjects,
act and react upon each other. Thus thinking, he remains unshaken. i.e he
remains in his own true nature.There is another reading which makes this
part mean thus thinking, he acts Who dwells in the self: who is calm. |
| 24. Whichever of the two happiness
or unhappiness, comes his way, he will be without any bother or brooding.
Without, entertaining ideas like `I want this, I don't want this, he will
have equal attitude towards a mass of earth, stone and gold, and be indifferent.
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