Verse 14.22

Verse 14.22: The Exalted-one spake—“The light (of knowledge), the urge for action, and even infatuation, O Son of Pandu, as they (with the respective Gunas dominating) start into operation, he does not hate: nor does he long (for them) when they desist. (327)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

One whom the notion that he alone is the ‘master action-doer,’ does not even touch, when the Rajas waxes strong and the body issues forth blossoms of activism and activity encircles the being; or who does not worry himself if action bears no fruit at all; or who does not get puffed up at his own state of being learned when the Sattva waxes strong and all the sense-centres get illuminated with the light of knowledge; or who does not fall a victim to infatuation, or does not worry over nescience when Tamas waxes strong. One who does not hanker after knowledge while under infatuation, or does not attach any importance to activism while possessed of knowledge, but (at the same time) does not feel sorry if actions take place, one who makes no differentiation, in the way the Sun takes no account of the three stages-evening, morning and noon: is there any need for such a one of any other light of knowledge to make him possessed of knowledge? Does the ocean stand in need of rain water to get into tide? Or, even were he to perform actions, will the activism stick to him? Just tell me if the mighty Himalaya Mountain ever shivers with cold. Or will it make him lose his knowledge were he faced with infatuation? Could the intense heat of summer ever bake (scald) the fire?