14.25 Gone beyond Krishna speaks
मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः
सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते
mānāpamānayos tulyas tulyo mitrāri-pakṣhayoḥ
sarvārambha-parityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa uchyate
the same in honour and dishonour, the same toward friend and enemy, having given up every grasping undertaking — that one is said to have gone beyond the strands.
Explanation
The portrait closes, and it is chapter 12's again.
The same in honour and dishonour, toward friend and enemy, having given up every grasping undertaking.
Almost word for word the description of who is dear to him in 12.18–19. Two chapters reach the same person from opposite directions — one through devotion, one through analysis — and neither mentions ritual.
Word by word
- māna
- honor
- apamānayoḥ
- dishonor
- tulyaḥ
- equal
- tulyaḥ
- equal
- mitra
- friend
- ari
- foe
- pakṣhayoḥ
- to the parties
- sarva
- all
- ārambha
- enterprises
- parityāgī
- renouncer
- guṇa-atītaḥ
- risen above the three modes of material nature
- saḥ
- they
- uchyate
- are said to have
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