Sanskrit · Devanagari
न प्रहृष्येत्प्रियं प्राप्य नोद्विजेत्प्राप्य चाप्रियम्। स्थिरबुद्धिरसम्मूढो ब्रह्मविद् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
na prahṛṣyetpriyaṃ prāpya nodvijetprāpya cāpriyam sthirabuddhirasammūḍho brahmavid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882and who rests in Brahman
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।5.20।। न प्रहृष्येत् प्रहर्षं न कुर्यात् प्रियम् इष्टं प्राप्य लब्ध्वा। न उद्विजेत् प्राप्य च अप्रियम् अनिष्टं लब्ध्वा। देहमात्रात्मदर्शिनां हि प्रियाप्रियप्राप्ती हर्षविषादौ कुर्वाते न केवलात्मदर्शिनः तस्य प्रियाप्रियप्राप्त्यसंभवात्। किञ्च सर्वभूतेषु एकः समः निर्दोषः आत्मा इति स्थिरा निर्विचिकित्सा बुद्धिः यस्य सः स्थिरबुद्धिः असंमूढः संमोहवर्जितश्च स्यात् यथोक्तब्रह्मवित् ब्रह्मणि स्थितः अकर्मकृत् सर्वकर्मसंन्यासी इत्यर्थःकिञ्च ब्रह्मणि स्थितः
719cf2173642…Rāmānuja
5.20 Whatever is experienced as pleasant by one staying in a body and remaining in a particular condition because of the subtle impressions of his old Karmas, and whatever is experienced as unpleasant - on attaining those two types of experiences, one should not feel joy or grief. How? By having the mind on that 'Which is steadfast' i.e., the self, 'Undeluded,' i.e., one must be free from the delusion of identity of the steadfast self with the transient body. And how can this be? He who knows Brahman and abides in Brahman, i.e., by becoming a knower of Brahman by instruction by the teachers - such a person abides steadily, engaged in the practices towards winning Brahman. What is said is this: From the instructions received from the sages who know the truth, one should learn what has to be learnt about the self. Endeavouring to actualise the same, one does not consider the body as the sefl and remains fixed in the joyous experience of the vision of the steadfast self. Let him not rejoice and grieve when he experiences pleasant and unpleasant things, as such experiences result from the Prakrti and are transient.
8d7e91819f08…Swami Sivananda
5.20 न not? प्रहृष्येत् should rejoice? प्रियम् the pleasant? प्राप्य having obtained? न not? उद्विजेत् should be troubled? प्राप्य having obtained? च and? अप्रियम् the unpleasant? स्थिरबुद्धिः one with steady intellect? असम्मूढः undeluded? ब्रह्मवित् knower of Brahman? ब्रह्मणि in Brahman? स्थितः established.Commentary This is the state of a Jivanmukta or a liberated sage or a Brahmana who identifies himself with the Self or Atman. He always has a balanced mind. He is never deluded. He has abandoned all actions as he rests in Brahman. He who has an unbalanced mind? who identifies himself with the body and mind feels pleasure and pain? exhilaration of spirits when he gets a pleasant object and grief when he obtains an unpleasant object. (Cf.VI.21?27?28XIII.12XIV.20)
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