Chapter 6 Shloka 7
जितात्मन: प्रशान्तस्य परमात्मा समाहित:।
शीतोष्णसुखदु:खेषु तथा मानापमानयो:।।७।।
The Lord now says:
The Supreme Lord Himself abides in that emancipated one, who remains steady and unperturbed even whilst dwelling in heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour.
The Atmavaan’s life – established in equanimity
Little one, now the Lord describes the Atmavaan:
a) Such a one maintains the same attitude in heat and cold, joy and sorrow, honour and dishonour.
b) He dwells in an attitude of equanimity amidst duality.
c) He is untouched by raag and dvesh.
d) He is neither involved in the pursuit of any specific action, nor does he seek to escape from it.
e) He does not seek recognition, nor does he crave freedom from censure.
f) He does not seek happiness, nor escape from sorrow.
g) He seeks not the fulfilment of any desire nor does he renounce what is not likeable.
h) Ever impartial, such a one is detached from himself. No attachments cling to him and he is devoid of any aberrations.
i) He has identified himself with the Atma and renounced the body idea.
j) Such a one merges in the Atma, transcending the anatma – the body and sense objects. He is absorbed in the Supreme Atma.
Visibly the body exists, but the ‘I’ inherent in the body idea no longer exists. He is manifest, yet he transcends both name and form. His body acts but he is a non-doer, since he no longer identifies with the body. His body partakes of sense objects, but such an Atmavaan is no longer an ‘enjoyer’.
All that remains then is the uninfluenceable witness. It is said that the Lord Himself abides in every sphere of such a one’s life. He is never distanced from his Supreme Atma Self – his intrinsic essence. Ever abiding in equanimity, he is the living proof of eternal bliss. He is the eternal, luminous radiance of Adhyatam – the life divine. One could say that such a one has attained Supreme Divinity.
