Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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VICHA, MALA. of the dull, worldly-minded as well as an vnquirer of knowledge, is a sage.
Praise and reviling, friend and foe, Happiness and misery, honor and shamc; Brahmâ and straw, nectar or poison,
Gold and glass, for him are equally indifferent. He is perfectly indifferent to praise or its reverse, he regards not the affection of a friend, nor is affected by the attacks of an enemy. Happincss and misery, caused as they are, by the modification of the active quality of the internal organ, bring him no distraction ; Brahmâ and straw, nectar or poison, gold and glass are of no concern to him, though ordinarily, men are found to hunger af' r the former and forbake the latter. Because he knows them to be all impermanent, hence unreal, and the enjoyments they bring forth are all short-lived.
Therefore, he is said to be
Indifferent to good nd bad alike, his heart is cold; For it bas lost its a 'dour (thoroughly been restrained). Subtle his thought, good friend of men,
With out egoism; and pure intelligence only. Now, from what has already been said, it is clear that he is supremely indifferent to happiness or woe etc. He regards them with an equal eye, for which he is called 'cold-in other words, having restrained and fully subjugated his heart, he is no more distracted with worldly desires, and has got rid of them. His mind has for its subject BRAHMA, who is subtler than the subtlest, and of whom the Sruti says “One whose envelopment of ignorance has been destroyed sees BRAHMA with the aid of his subtle intellect, and the teachings of the Shastras." He is friend of the world; he loves all men and creatures. He is intelligence only without any conceit for his body.