Verse 5.23

Verse 5.23: “He that is enabled to withstand, right here and ere the dissolution of the body, the furor produced by passion and anger: that man is (truly) set in Yoga: is happy. (129)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Men of wisdom that have kept under control all the ills of the body, are not even aware of the existence of the misery arising out of senseobjects. They do not even understand the language of the external objects, having abiding eternal bliss in the interior. But their mode of enjoying that bliss is different. They do not taste that bliss, as do the birds taste the fruits, but while enjoying it, forget their own position as the enjoyer. While enjoying the bliss of the Self they become so much absorbed in it, that the last trace of Separateness gets altogether removed and then that absorption holds them in embrace in such a way that with that embrace their individual souls become one with the Supreme Self, just as water mingles with other water. When wind is of one life with the sky, the very difference as two separate things such as the “wind” and the “sky” is vain and void; in that way, with the beings and their absorption (in the bliss of the Self) getting together, the abiding result is only the happiness in the form of eternal life. With the elimination of duality, there remains only absolute Unity of Being: but is there any, that could remain separate as the experiencer of this?