Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 6.32
Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 6.32 · 6 · Verse 32
Sanskrit Original
।।6.32।।आत्मनः च अन्येषां च आत्मनाम् असंकुचितज्ञानैकाकारतया औपम्येन स्वात्मनि च अन्येषु सर्वत्र वर्तमानं पुत्रजन्मादिरूपं सुखं तन्मरणादिरूपं च दुःखम् असम्बन्धसाम्यात् समं यः पश्यति परपुत्रजन्ममरणादिसमं स्वपुत्रजन्ममरणादिकं यः पश्यति इत्यर्थः। स योगी परमयोगकाष्ठं गतो मतः।
6.32 (iv) He who - because of the similarity between his own self and other selves, as they are all constituted similarly of uncontracted knowledge in their essential being - views the pleasures in the form of the birth of a son and the sorrows in the form of the death of a son of his own and of others, as eal, on the ground of their eal unrelatedness to such pleasures and pains to him. Viewing his own pleasures and pains of the above description as being not different from those of others of the same kind - tht Yogin is deemed the highest; he is judged as having reached the summit of Yoga. [The idea is to prevent misconstruing the verse as meaning that one shares the joy and misery of all as his own. It means only that the highest type of yogins understand that the self is unrelated to the pain and pleasures of his own body-mind. He understands also that the same is the case with other selves.]