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Chapter 12
Every striver, thinks and he should also think, that those who are doing wrong or those who harm him, are purifying him of the sins of the past. When even a common striver, is friendly and compassionate, to those who bear ill-will to him, a devotee who has attained perfection must be very much more friendly and compassionate, to them. In the 'Patanjalayogadarsana', four factors have been mentioned, to purify the mind.
'Friendship, to those who are happy, compassion to those, who are sad, a feeling of pleasure to those, who are virtuous, and indifference to those, who are sinners' (1/33). But here Lord Krsna, has included the four factors in two - friendship and compassion. It means, that a perfect devotee is friendly to the happy and the virtuous, and compassionate, to the sad and the sinful.
A striver, instead of being indifferent to a sinner should he compassionate to him, because the striver, who is suffering is being purified of his old sins by reaping fruit of his sinful actions of the past, while the sinner, who is inflicting pain on a striver, is committing a new sin. So, he specially deserves, compassion.
Nirmamah:- Though a devotee is naturally friendly and compassionate to all beings, yet he has no sense of mine, with anyone. It is mineness with beings, and objects, which binds him. He is totally free from a sense of mine, even with his so-called body, senses, mind, and intellect. A striver, commits an error that he tries to be free from mineness with beings and objects, but he does not pay proper attention to the point, that he has to be free from mineness, with his body, mind, intellect and senses, also.
Nirahaiskarah:- A person, has egoistic feelings by identifying, the self with the body and senses etc. If a devotee, has no egoism, but he realizes his true affinity for God, noble, divine and unique traits, are revealed in him. But be, knowing those traits (virtues) as divine, regards them as of God, not of his own. So, he becomes free from egoism.
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