| 54. Becoming Brahman,
of serene self; he neither grieves nor desires, treating all beings alike ;
he attains supreme devotion to Me.How who has reached Brahman and attained
selfserenity does not grieve regarding his failure to accomplish an object
or regarding his wants. It is not indeed possible to suppose that he who knows
Brahman can have a longing for any object unattained ; therefore the words
he neither grieves nor desires is tantamount to saying that such is the nature
of the man who has become Brahman.Another reading makes the passage mean he
neither grieves nor exults.Treating all being alike: he regards the pleasure
and pain of all creatures equally with his own, i.e. that they would affect
them just as they affect himself) It is not meant here that he sees the identity
of the Self in all, as this will be mentioned in the next verse.such a devotee
to wisdom attains highest devotion to me, the Supreme Lord; the fourth or the
highest of the four kinds of devotion; viz the Devotion of Knowledge, spoken
of in vii. 16. Then, |
