Chapter 6 · The Yoga of Meditation

श्रीकृष्णŚrī Kṛṣṇa speaks

Text 6.9

सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते

suhṛin-mitrāryudāsīna-madhyastha-dveṣhya-bandhuṣhu sādhuṣhvapi cha pāpeṣhu sama-buddhir viśhiṣhyate

Recitation · Text 6.9
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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (13 words)

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Purport Overview & Key Insights

The list is deliberately uncomfortable: well-wisher, friend, enemy, the indifferent, the mediator, the hateful, the relative — and then the righteous and the sinful too. One who holds the same intelligence toward all of them is called distinguished. The categories we sort people into are exactly what the verse dissolves.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:Equal vision is tested on the categories we most want to keep separate.