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Chapter 12
Samaduhkhasukhah:- A devotee, remains even-minded in pleasure and pain, favourable and unfavourable circumstances, without having attachment and aversion, for them.
Favourable and unfavourable circumstances, by making a man happy and sad, bind him. A devotee, knows of favourable and the unfavourable circumstances, but he remains even-minded, he feels neither happy nor sad.
Ksamr:- The Lord, in the thirteenth verse of this chapter, by the term 'Advesta', declared that His devotee does not bear any malice, towards those people who bear animosity, with him. Here, by the term 'Ksamf, the Lord says that he is forgiving even to those, who do wrong to him without having the least desire, to punish them. He wants them not to be punished by God or anyone else, for the wrong done to him. This is an excellence of a devotee.
Santustah satatam:-[1]—Generally, a being, is content in favourable circumstances, but be loses his calm, in undesirable circumstances. This contentment is not eternal, because he wants to derive satisfaction out of perishable persons and objects etc. He (the self), being eternal can attain real and permanent contentment, only by realizing God, Who is eternal.
Having realized God, a devotee ever remains content, because he has neither disunion from Him, nor does he need the perishable world. Therefore, there is no reason for his discontent. It is because of contentment, that he does not attach importance, to any mundane being or object, in the least.[2]
The term 'Satatam', with the term 'Sanmstah' shows, that a devotee ever remains content and that contentment never undergoes any change, nor is there any possibility, of any change in it. A perfect soul, always remains content, whether he has attained perfection through the paths of action, or knowledge or devotion.
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