Verse 12.17

Verse 12.17: “He who is not elated—does not hate—does not grieve does not yearn, renouncing (alike) the good and the evil: He that is (thus) full of devotion, is dear unto Me: (190)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

One who considers nothing as good as the attainment of the Supreme, and therefore, does not feel (derive) any delight from the enjoyment of the sense-objects; one in whom no hatred finds any room since all distinction has vanished for him on account of the knowledge (he has secured) that he himself is the entire universe: one who never grieves for the past (or for the lost) in the full confidence that what is really his own would not be lost even at the end of the Kalpa (a day of God Brahmdev—432 Million years of mortals): one who never aspires for anything, since there already exists within his ownself, that beyond which there exists nothing: one never feels any distinction such as ‘good or bad’, in the way there is nothing like night or day with the Sun. Such a one who has become the very knowledge incarnate, and has besides been my loving devotee there is nothing so dear to me as this devotee, and taking an oath in your name, I am telling you this real truth.