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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -6
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32. He who looks upon pleasure or pain everywhere by the same standard as for himself, that yogi, O Arjuna, is regarded as the highest. O Arjuna, he who looks upon pleasure or pain everywhere by the same standard as for himself—['Or' ("yā") is here used in the sense of 'and' ("ca")]-By comparison with himself, he regards pleasure and pain with regard to all beings, identically. "Just as the pleasant is dear to me, in the same way is the pleasant favourable to all beings; and just as the painful is unfavourable and undesirable for me, in the same way is the painful undesirable and adverse to all beings"-thus he sees, by his own standard, pleasure and pain as favourable and unfavourable, equally for all beings alike; that is to say, he does not behave adversely towards anybody; he is harmless. That yogi, who is harmless and established in Plenary Know ledge in the manner stated, is regarded as the highest among all yogins. Considering that the Yoga, described above whose characte ristic is Plenary Knowledge, is hard to acquire, and desirous of learning the certain means to its attainment, |
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