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TEXT 20 na prahrsyet priyam prapya
SYNONYMS  na--never;
prahrsyet--rejoice; priyam--pleasant; prapya--achieving;
na--does not; udvijet--agitated; prapya--obtaining;
ca--also; apriyam--unpleasant; sthira-buddhih--self-intelligent;
asammudhah--unbewildered; brahma-vit--one who knows the Supreme
perfectly; brahmani--in the transcendence; sthitah--situated.
TRANSLATION A person
who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon
obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, unbewildered,
and who knows the science of God, is to be understood as already situated
in Transcendence.
PURPORT The symptoms
of the self-realized person are given herein. The first symptom is that
he is not illusioned by the false identification of the body with his true
self. He knows perfectly well that he is not this body, but is the fragmental
portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is therefore not joyful
in achieving something, nor does he lament in losing anything which is
related to his body. This steadiness of mind is called sthira-buddhi,
or self-intelligence. He is therefore never bewildered by mistaking the
gross body for the soul, nor does he accept the body as permanent and disregard
the existence of the soul. This knowledge elevates him to the station of
knowing the complete science of the Absolute Truth, namely Brahman, Paramatma
and Bhagavan. He thus knows his constitutional position perfectly well,
without falsely trying to become one with the Supreme in all respects.
This is called Brahman realization, or self-realization. Such steady consciousness
is called Krsna consciousness.
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