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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-14 Guṇa-traya-vibhāg Yogaḥ
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mānāpamānayos tulyas tulyo mitrāri pakṣayoḥ | Commentary'who focuses within,' means abiding in the ātman because of love for the ātman, and maintaining emotional equanimity in pleasure and pain arising from birth, transformation, sickness old age and death of one's children and other relatives and friends. ‘who regards any praise and blame as equal’ — realising that the good and bad characteristics one may possess are due merely to the fact of being human and identifying with the body rather than the Jīva, and as such are unconnected with the real Self. ‘the same in honour and dishonour’ — because these are feelings based on the misconception that the body is the Self; and 'the same to friend and foe' — because one understands that there is no [substantial] physical connection between oneself and others and who has thus abandoned all enterprises in which embodied beings are involved — these are the indications of one who is said to have transcended the Gunas. |
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