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From the destruction of attachment and aversion, the knower attains the emptiness of objects. This one is never pierced, broken, or destroyed. ||47||
**Meaning:** The knower, by destroying attachment and aversion, attains the emptiness of objects. He can never be pierced, broken, or destroyed by anyone. ||47||
He does not remember the past, nor does he desire the future. He is equal in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor. ||48||
**Meaning:** The wise man does not remember the past (things of the past), nor does he desire the future, and he remains equal in all situations of cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor. Now, the nature of the knower is described in eight verses - ||48||
He who has conquered the senses, conquered anger, is free from the disturbance of ego and illusion, is free from the touch of greed, and is free from the pain caused by the desire for the Vedas. ||49||
**Meaning:** They (the knowers) are masters of their senses, conquerors of anger, free from the disturbance of ego and illusion, free from the touch of greed, and free from the pain caused by the desire for the Vedas. ||49||
He, with his mind controlled, stands firm in the actions he has done. He is devoted to the effort of self-control, through the practice of natural conduct. ||50||