🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 6.9

6.9 सुह्यन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु in the goodhearted? in friends? in enemies? in the indifferent? in neutrals? in haters and in relatives? साधुषु in the righteous? अपि also? च and? पापेषु in the unrighteous?,समबुद्धिः one who has eal mind? विशिष्यते excels.Commentary He excels He is the best among the Yogarudhas.Samabudhhi is eanimity or evenness of mind. A Yogi of Samabuddhi has eal vision. He is ite impartial. He is the same to all. He makes no difference with reference to caste? creed or colour. He loves all as his own self? as rooted in the Self.A goodhearted man does good to others without expecting any servie from them in return.Udasina is one who is ite indifferent.A neutral is one who does not join any of the two contending parties. He stands as a silent spectator or witness.The righteous are those who do righteous actions and follow the injunctions of the scriptures.The unrighteous are those who do wrong and forbidden actions? who inure others and who do not follow the scriptures.

6.9 The first line of the verse beginning with 'benefactor,' etc. is a single compound word. Visisyate, he excels, i.e. he is the best among all those who are established in Yoga-(a different reading is vimucyate, he becomes free); sama-buddhih, who has sameness of view, i.e. whose mind is not engaged with the estion of who one is and what he does; with regard to a suhrd, benefactor-one who does some good without consideration of return; mitram, a friend, one who is affectionate; arih, a foe; udasinah, a neutral, who sides with nobody; madhyasthah, an arbiter, who is a well-wisher of two conflicting parties; dvesyah, the hateful, who is repulsive to oneself; bandhuh, a relative;- to all these as also sadhusu, with regard to good people, who follow the scriptures; api ca, and even; papesu, sinners, who perform prohibited actions-with regard to all of them. Therefore, to acire this excellent result-

6.9 'Well-wishers' (Suhrt) are those who wish one well, regardless of differences in age. 'Friends' (Mitra) are well-wisheres of eal age. 'Foes' (Ari) are those who wish ill to one because of some particular cause. 'The indifferent' (Udasina) are those devoid of both friendship and hostility because of the absence of causes for both; 'neutrals' (Madhyastha) are those who are by their very nature incapable of both friendship and hostility. 'The hateful' are those who wish ill to one even from birth. 'Relations' are those who bear goodwill from birth. 'The good' are those devoted to virtue. 'The sinful' are those given to sin. Because of the self being the only end of Yoga, and because of there being no gain and no opposition from well-wishers, friends, etc., he who could regard them all with an eal eye as selves, excels in respect of fitness for the practice of Yoga.

6.9 Suhrt etc. Friend is one whose heart remains good and auspicious without cause (on its own accord). Companionship is [that which is felt] mutually. Enmity is [also that which is felt] between one another. The indifferent one : the one, who is free from both these. One who remains in the middle : he who is partly a friend and partly an enemy. Foe : he who deserves to be hated, [but] cannot be hated. Relative : the one [connected] by marital bondage. Whosoever is with his mind eal to all these as well as to the righteous and the sinful; he excells [all] i.e., stage after stage he goes out of the cycle of birth-and-death. By the worshipful-footed persons of this sort -

।।6.9।। पूर्व श्लोक में ज्ञानी पुरुष की जड़ वस्तुओं की ओर अवलोकन करने की दृष्टि का वर्णन किया गया है। परन्तु जगत् केवल जड़ वस्तुओं से ही नहीं बना है। उसमें चेतन प्राणी भी हैं। मानव मात्र के साथ ज्ञानी पुरुष किस भाव से रहेगा क्या उन्हें मिथ्या कहकर उनके अस्तित्व का निषेध कर देगा क्या जगत् के अधिष्ठान स्वरूप परमात्मा में स्थित होकर वह लोगों की सेवा के प्रति उदासीन रहेगा इन प्रश्नों का उत्तर इस श्लोक में दिया गया है।भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं कि ऐसा ज्ञानी पुरुष सभी मनुष्यों के साथ समान प्रेम भाव से रहता है चाहे वे सुहृद् हों या मित्र शत्रु उदासीन मध्यस्थ बन्धु साधु हों या पापी। अपनी विशाल सहृदयता में वह सबका आलिंगन करता है। प्रेम और आदरभाव से सबके साथ रहता है। उसकी दृष्टि में वे सभी समान महत्त्वपूर्ण हैं।उसका प्रेम साधु और पापी उत्कृष्ट और निकृष्ट में भेद नहीं करता। वह जानता है कि आत्मस्वरूप के अज्ञान से ही पुरुष पापकर्म में प्रवृत्त होता है और अपने ही कर्मों से दुख उठाता है। स्वामी रामतीर्थ इसे बड़ी सुन्दरता से व्यक्त करते हुये कहते हैं कि हम अपने पापों से दण्डित होते हैं न कि पापों के लिए।आत्मस्वरूप के अपरोक्ष अनुभव से वह यह पहचान लेता है कि एक ही आत्मा सर्वत्र व्याप्त है। अनेकता में एकता को वह जानता है औऱ विश्व के सामञ्जस्य को पहचानता है। सर्वत्र व्याप्त आत्मस्वरूप का अनुभव कर लेने पर वह किसके साथ प्रेम करेगा और किससे घृणा मनुष्य के शरीर के किसी भी अंग में पीड़ा होने पर सबकी ओर देखने का उसका भाव एक ही होता है क्योंकि सम्पूर्ण शरीर में ही वह स्वयं व्याप्त है।इस उत्तम फल को प्राप्त करने के लिए मनुष्य को क्या करना चाहिये उत्तर है