Bhagavad Gita -Madhvacharya 322

Bhagavad Gita -Sri Madhvacharya

(Bhashya and Tatparya Nirnaya)

Chapter 14 Gunatrayavibhaga Yoga 22 – 23 – 24. The Resplendent Lord said : He does not hate when illumination, enterprise, or obscurity arises nor hankers for them when they decline, who being impassive or detached from the attributes, remains undisturbed, who stands indifferent knowing that it is the attributes which operate, who considers alike happiness as well as unhappiness, who is content in himself, who considers alike the earth, the stone and the gold, who remains balanced in pleasant and unpleasant conditions, who remains balanced in compliments and in censure. Primarily he neither hates nor hankers for. Thus in Bhallaveya section of Samaveda - “The one who goes beyond the three attributes neither hates not hankers for. Even then he would desire for the subtle saatvic attribute, but if subtle taamasic attributes come even by destiny, he will reject them”. Thus in Moksha Dharma - “Neither the gods nor seers, O King, established in satva can ever be insignificant in subtle attributes. In which case they would be modified in their convictions. One who is not firm in their convictions can never reach the Person, the Best of the Persons”. Thus similarly in the same text – “The person who is firm in his saatvic attributes' becomes, verily, a man-Lion assured of his liberation”.