BG 6.9
To excel, one must look impartially on all - friends, foes, enemies, the indifferent, hostile, virtuous, and sinful.
साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते
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suhṛin-mitrāryudāsīna-madhyastha-dveṣhya-bandhuṣhu — friends, foes, enemies, neutral parties, relatives
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suhṛin — well-wishers, friends
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mitrāryudāsīna — friends, enemies, and neutral people
mitra—friends; ari—enemies; udāsīna—neutral persons -
madhyastha — mediators
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dveṣhya — the envious
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bandhuṣhu — relatives
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sādhuṣhvapi — as well as pious
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sādhuṣhu — pious
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api — as well as
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cha — and
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pāpeṣhu — the sinners
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sama-buddhir — of impartial intellect
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sama — same, impartial
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buddhir — intellect
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viśhiṣhyate — is distinguished
One should seek liberation by one's own mind, and not allow the mind to degrade. For the mind alone is the friend of the self, and the mind alone is its foe. To one who has conquered the self, the self is a friend, but to one who has not done so, it remains a hostile enemy. One who is self-controlled and has attained peace is equally unmoved by heat or cold, pleasure or pain, and in honor and dishonor. One who desires nothing but wisdom and spiritual realization, who has conquered the senses, and looks the same way upon a stone as a piece of gold, is a true saint. To excel, one must look impartially on all - friends, foes, enemies, the indifferent, hostile, virtuous, and sinful.
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