| 15. (Answer):
Listen.That wise man whom, verily these afflict not, O chief of men, to
whom pleasure and pain are same, he for immortality is fit.That person to
whom pleasure and pain are alike,who neither exults in pleasure nor feels
dejected in pain,who is a man of wisdom, whom heat and cold and other things
such as those mentioned above do not affect in virtue of his vision of the
eternal Self,that man, firm in his vision of the eternal Self and bearing
calmly the pairs of opposites (such as heat and cold), is able to attain
immortality (moksha)The Real and the Unreal:For the following reason also
it is proper that thou should abandon grief and distressful delusion and
calmly endure heat and cold, etc. For, |
