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GĪTĀ-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
अर्जुन उवाच । 8 कैलि स्त्रीन गुणानेतानतीतो भवति प्रभो। किमाचारः कथं चैतांस्त्रीन गुणानतिवर्तते ॥ २१ ॥
श्रीभगवानुवाच । प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव । न द्वेष्टि संप्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति ॥ २२ ॥ उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते।। गुणा वर्तन्त इत्येव योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते ॥ २३ ॥ समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः । तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः ॥२४॥
he has in Chapter II asked a question about the Steady-inReason (stithaprajna), (2.54), so also he now asks-]
Arjuna said :-(21) O Lord ! by what characteristic may a man (be said to) go beyond the three constituents ? What is the behaviour of that (trigunātīta) person ? and how does he go beyond these three constituents? (tell me that). The Blessed Lord said :-(22) O Pāndava! that man, who, when Enlightenment, Progression, and Ignorance (that is, respectively the products or the effects of the sattva, rajas and tamas constituents) overcome him, does not hate them; and, who does not desire to possess them, if he does not obtain them; (23) who remains like an Apathetic towards the Fruit of Action; whom the (sativa, rajas, and tamas) constituents cannot unsettle ; who remains steady, only realising that the constituents are performing (their respective) functions, and does not move (that is, does not experience any emotion); (24) to whom pain and happiness are the same; who has become svasthah' (that is, steady in his own place); to whom earth, stone, and gold are just the same%3; to whom what is beloved and what is disliked, disaparagement and praise, are just the same; who is always
