Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation: Verse 32
आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन ।
सुखं वा यदि वा दु:खं स योगी परमो मत: ॥
ātmaupamyena sarvatra samaṃ paśyati yo’rjuna
sukhaṃ vā yadi vā du:khaṃ sa yogī paramo mata: – 6.32
The yogi, who perceives the same Self everywhere, whether it is a pleasant (sukha) or an unpleasant (du:kha) situation, is considered the best and highest.
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yoga – Yoga through Meditation and Contemplation - Verse 32
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna describes how true spiritual pursuit takes one to interactional sublimity, fullness, alikeness and oneness. Samadhi is an inner Self-absorptional state. But, this is an outer, interactional, vibrant state of expansion and unshakeable harmony.
The variety of sensory objects ceases to have any allurement for the Knower. All objects, when interacted with, will only result in sukha and duḥkha, as Krishna underlines while explaining interactional life (2.14).
As our senses reduce the world objects into five, the mind reduces the five into two, namely sukha and duḥkha. Thus the only experiential outcome the entire world of infinite variety can bring or bestow is ‘sukha-duḥkhas’.
These two imprints are of the Self alone. Realizing this, the Knower traces in all sukha-duḥkhas the same Self.
One who thus identifies everywhere and all as but the Self, is the yogi of the highest order, says Krishna.
