Sanskrit · Devanagari
समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः। तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ tulyapriyāpriyo dhīrastulyanindātmasaṃstutiḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882to whom pain and pleasure are alike to whom a sod and a stone and gold are alike to whom what is agreeable and what is disagreeable are alike who has discernment to whom censure and praise of himself are alike
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।14.24।। --,समदुःखसुखः समे दुःखसुखे यस्य सः समदुःखसुखः? स्वस्थः स्वे आत्मनि स्थितः प्रसन्नः? समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः लोष्टं च अश्मा च काञ्चनं च लोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनानि समानि यस्य सः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः? तुल्यप्रियाप्रियः प्रियं च अप्रियं च प्रियाप्रिये तुल्ये समे यस्य सोऽयं तुल्यप्रियाप्रियः? धीरः धीमान्? तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः निन्दा च आत्मसंस्तुतिश्च निन्दात्मसंस्तुती? तुल्ये निन्दात्मसंस्तुती यस्य यतेः सः तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः।।किं च --,
a4b4d69aa801…Rāmānuja
14.24 - 14.25 He who is 'alike in pleasure and pain,' namely, whose mind is eal in pleasure and pain; 'who dwells in his self,' namely, who dwells in his self because his love for the self keeps his mind in eanimity in pleasure and pain arising from the birth, death etc., of his sons and other relatives and friends, and who, because of this, 'looks upon a clod, a stone and a piece of gold as of eal value,' who conseently remains the same towards things dear or hateful, i.e., who treats alike the worldly objects desired and undesired; who is 'intelligent,' namely, proficient in discrimination between the Prakrti and the self; who, therefore, regards blame and praise as alike, namely, who treats with eality praise and blame looking upon good and evil alities as born of identification with bodies such as those of men etc., and as such unconnected with his real self; who is the 'same in honour and dishonour' because these are feelings based on the misconception that the body is the self, and as a conseence of such discrimination between the body and the self, 'looks alike on friend and foe,' because he understands that ther is no connection between them and himself; and who has thus abandoned all entrprises in which embodied beings are involved - he who is like this, is said to have risen above the Gunas. Now Sri Krsna states the main method (technie) for transcending such Gunas:
f51024cb5d76…Swami Sivananda
14.24 समदुःखसुखः alike in pleasure and pain? स्वस्थः standing in his own Self? समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः regarding a clod of earth? a stone and gold alike? तुल्यप्रियाप्रियः the same to the dear and the undear? धीरः firm? तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः the same in censure and praise. Commentary Night and day have no meaning to a post fixed in the ground. Even so pleasure and pain have no meaning to a sage who dwells in his own Self. He is above the pairs of opposites. In his eyes cowdung or gold? a jewel or a stone? are of eal value. He is free from the idea of,giving and taking. His mind is not perturbed by anything pleasant or unpleasant. He is the same towards agreeable and disagreeable things. Praise and censure cannot affect him. He stands adamant. He abides in his own essential state as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute. He is ever calm and serene. (Cf.V.18)
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