मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः ।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥२६॥
mukta-saṅgo ’nahaṁ-vādī dhṛty-utsāha-samanvitaḥ
siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate
Free from attachment and without egotism, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, unaffected by success or failure– such a doer (Kartā) is said to be Sāttvika. 26
Comment – A person of Sāttvika nature is free from both attachment and egoism, endowed with both firmness and enthusiasm and remains in equanimity (without any mental modifications) in both success and failure.
Comment:—
‘Muktasaṅgah’— As a SānkhyaYogī, is free from attachment, so is a Sāttvika doer, free from attachment, desire, lust, necessities and a sense of mine for objects, persons and incidents and circumstances etc., A Sāttvika doer, remains completely detached.
‘Anahamvādī’—He is free, from the sense or doership and so he never boasts of his actions, like men possessing a demoniac disposition. He is not proud, even of his equanimity or freedom from attachment, to the world.
‘Dhṛtyutsāhasamanvitaḥ’—A Sāttvika doer, is endowed with firmness and enthusiasm. A man, possessing firmness performs his duty, without being disturbed by odds, difficulties, obstacles and blame etc., while a man endowed with enthusiasm, discharges his duty with zeal, equally in success and failure, honour and dishonour and in praise and blame etc- Thus a Sāttvika doer, remains endowed with firmness and zeal.
‘Siddhyasiddhyōrnirvikāraḥ’—A Sāttvika doer, remains unaffected in success and failure. He neither feels elevated, when an action is accomplished easily, nor does he feel dejected if it is not accomplished in spite of best efforts. He remains equanimous, in success and failure.
‘Kartā sāttvika ucyatē’—Such an agent, who is free from attachment, is non-egoistic, endowed with firmness and zeal, and who is unswayed by success and failure, is called Sāttvika.
In this verse, there are six characteristics—attachment, egoism, firmness, zeal, success and failure. A Sāttvika doer, is free from the first two, he is endowed with the middle two and he remains equanimous, in the last two.
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