Chapter 18 verse 54
“One situated in the transcendental Brahman realization becomes mentally serene, neither grieving nor desiring. Being equitably disposed toward all living beings, such a yogi attains supreme devotion unto me.”
Bhagawan
briefly describes the state of the realized person as someone who has conquered
their body, mind, intellect and ego. They display equanimity among opposite
emotions or situations- grief & joy, pleasure and pain, good and evil etc
as well as show equipoise amongst all beings. This state of the yogi naturally makes
them attracted to God and Divine and sparks devotion of the highest kind in
them. Adi Sankaracharya famously said this in many works of his later years
especially Bhaja Govindham that the knowledge of the self is only obtained
through surrender to the Divine and as well that would be the final surrender
to rid ourselves of any semblance of ego left in us. When we reach that self
realized state, we are a perfect union of karma yogi, ashtanga yogi, jnana yogi
and bhakti yogi. This is utopia for the human soul.
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