Sanskrit · Devanagari
उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते। गुणा वर्तन्त इत्येवं योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
udāsīnavadāsīno guṇairyo na vicālyate guṇā vartanta ityevaṃ yo.avatiṣṭhati neṅgate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882who sitting like one unconcerned is never perturbed by the qualities who remains steady and moves not, (thinking) merely that the qualities exist who is self-contained
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।14.23।। --,उदासीनवत् यथा उदासीनः न कस्यचित् पक्षं भजते? तथा अयं गुणातीतत्वोपायमार्गेऽवस्थितः आसीनः आत्मवित् गुणैः यः संन्यासी न विचाल्यते विवेकदर्शनावस्थातः। तदेतत् स्फुटीकरोति -- गुणाः कार्यकरणविषयाकारपरिणताः अन्योन्यस्मिन् वर्तन्ते इति यः अवतिष्ठति। छन्दोभङ्गभयात् परस्मैपदप्रयोगः। योऽनुतिष्ठतीति वा पाठान्तरम्। न इङ्गते न चलति? स्वरूपावस्थ एव भवति इत्यर्थः।।किं च --,
322a3207f779…Rāmānuja
14.23 He who sits like one 'unconcerned,' namely, whose satisfaction consists in the vision of the self as different from the Gunas and sits like one unconcerned about other things and is not therefore disturbed by the Gunas through hatred and longing and who remains iet, reflecting: 'The Gunas function in their effects like illumination etc., and so 'rests unshaken,' i.e, does not act in accordance with the effects of the Gunas.
b1adb6d9907c…Swami Sivananda
14.23 उदासीनवत् like one unconcerned? आसीनः seated? गुणैः by the Gunas? यः who? न not? विचाल्यते is moved? गुणाः the Gunas? वर्तन्ते operate? इति thus? एव even? यः who? अवतिष्ठति is selfcentred? न not? इङ्गते moves.Commentary He is seated as a neutral (one who inclines to neither party). He is free from likes and dislikes. He is entirely unconcerned whether the alities with their effects and the body come or go. He is like the spectator at a football or a cricket match or a drama. Just as the sky remains unconcerned when the wind blows? so also he remains ite unconcerned when the alities operate.He does not swerve from the path of Selfrealisation. He treads the path firmly. He thinks and feels The alities are modified into the body? senses and senseobjects. They act and react upon one another? remains unshaken by them. He abides in his own Self and stands firm like the mountain Meru. (Cf.III.28V.8to11)
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