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Chapter 12
Link:—The Lord in the fourth group, which consists of the next verse, mentions the five marks of a perfect devotee.
yo na hrsyati na dvesti na Socati na kanksati
subhasubhaparityagi bhaktimanyah sa me priyah
He, who neither rejoices nor hates, neither grieves nor desires, and who has renounced attachment and aversion in good and evil, deeds, he who is thus devoted, is dear to Me. 17
Comment:-
Yo na hrsyati na dvesti na "socati na kanksati:- There are four important demerits - (1) attachment, (2) aversion (hate), (3) rejoicing and (4) grief. An enlightened devotee, is free from these four evils. He realizes that the world, being perishable has no independent existence. He (the self), being a fragment of God, is imperishable. So, he instead of having his affinity, for the changing world, accepts his affinity for God, which is eternal.
Thus, his mind is totally free from such evils, as attachment and aversion etc. During spiritual practice, the more one advances towards spiritualism, the less attachment and aversion, he has. When he attains perfection, these evils perish totally.
A common man, rejoices when he acquires desirable objects and gets rid of undesirable ones, while he grieves when he gets undesirable objects or is likely to get them, or loses desirable ones. An enlightened devotee, remains even-minded and free from evils, such as attachment and aversion etc.
At night, in the dark, a person wishes to light a lamp and he feels happy having lighted it. He hates a person or becomes angry with him, who extinguishes the light, and is worried as to how to light it again. But, at noon, when the sun shines brightly, he has neither a desire to light the lamp, or is rejoiced having lighted it, nor is angry with a man, who extinguishes it nor is worried how to light it again.
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