भविष्यति महासत्त्वो ज्ञातलोकपरावरः । सुखदुःखदशाहीनः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः ॥ ७ ॥
bhaviṣyati mahāsattvō jñātalōkaparāvaraḥ | sukhaduḥkhadaśāhīnaḥ samalōṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ || 7 ||
Translation
"He will be great of spirit, knowing the higher and the lower in the world, beyond the states of pleasure and pain, seeing a clod, a stone and gold as one."
Word by word
- bhaviṣyati
- he will be
- mahā
- great
- sattvō
- (sattvaḥ) of spirit
- jñāta
- knowing
- lōka
- in the world
- para
- the higher
- avaraḥ
- and the lower
- sukha
- of pleasure
- duḥkha
- and pain
- daśā
- the states
- hīnaḥ
- beyond
- sama
- as one
- lōṣṭa
- a clod
- aśma
- a stone
- kāñcanaḥ
- and gold
Meaning
The last phrase is from the Bhagavad Gītā's picture of the yogī (6.8, 14.24). To see gold and a clod as equal is not to be unable to tell them apart, but to want neither more than the other.