Verse 6.8

Verse 6.8: “One whose self is content in knowledge and in realisation, and has gained imperturbability, having subjugated all sensecentres; such an one who looks alike upon an earthclod, a stone or gold; he is steadied in self-control, and is called the man of Discipline (Yogin). (88)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

When one, after deep thinking comes to the abiding truth that all ideas and desires in regard to worldly existence, are empty having been born of delusion, and the more deeply he opens his mind to the Eternal Being, the more that truth of being is seen to be identical with the essence of the Supreme Self. When this happens all doubt and discussion whether the essence of the form of the self is all-pervading or is limited by place, time etc. automatically sinks down there and then, and becomes void. One, who has in this way conquered all the senses, reaches the level of the Supreme, even though he continues abiding in the human (body) form. Such a one alone has conquered the senses and he alone should be called a Yogin, since his heart never makes any such distinction as great and small, higher and lower. He holds alike gold of the size of mountain Meru as also a small clod of earth. He abides desireless and even-tempered to the extent of holding as a mere tiny piece of earth, even a brilliant gem of the value of the entire world.