Verse-57
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 57
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehastattatprāpya śubhāśubham
nābhinandati na dveṣṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
The one who at all times is without affection on meeting with this good or that evil object and neither rejoices nor hates his wisdom is settled.
How does a man of settled wisdom speak? The question is still the same. In a normal state, attachment to suitable situations and desires and arising therefrom the language of desires and longings and in unsuitable situation the language of agitation, restlessness and frenzy, gives expression to the silent emotion of agitation or it emanates from speech as well. But here the matter concerns the man of steady wisdom. He is without affection. 'Anabhisnehah' and that too in each and every situation. This does not mean that there is harshness in his life. Dryness is not meant by this state! Taking auspicious–inauspicious, suitable–unsuitable, happiness and sorrow to be the cosmic play of the Supreme and makes Him the centre of all his affection.
The difficulty with worldly life is that in one aspect there is attachment and in the other agitation. Attachment for one state causes aversion for the other; whereas for the man of settled wisdom both these states are obstructions. That is why on meeting something favorable to consider the grace of Shri Krishna and if confronted something unfavourable then His will. Then will intellect be imbued with divine emotions which will facilitate the state of settled wisdom. Otherwise, the worldly attachments will create conditions sometime for any propensity and sometime for some disturbance.