समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः।।14.24।।
मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः।सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते।।14.25।।
He to whom sorrow and happiness are alike, who is established in his own Self, to whom a lump of earth, iron, and gold are the same, to whom the agreeable and the disagreeable are the same, who is wise, to whom censure and his own praise are the same;
He who is the same under honor and dishonor, who is equitably disposed towards both friends and foes, who has renounced all undertakings—he is said to have gone beyond dualities.
Osho’s Commentary
Krishna continues to describe the man who has transcended the gunas. He is a man of perfect equanimity. Pleasure and pain are the same to him. A lump of clay, a stone, and a piece of gold are of equal value. The dear and the un-dear, praise and blame, honor and dishonor, friend and foe—he is balanced in all these pairs of opposites. He has abandoned all selfish undertakings. This is a man who has moved beyond all the judgments of the mind. He sees the world with an equal eye, because he has realized the one, undivided reality that underlies all these apparent differences. He lives in a state of profound peace, because he is no longer pulled and pushed by the dualities of the world. He has found his freedom in the great, silent center of his own being.