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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 28 ]
हेतुत्वमप्यसति कर्तारि दुःखयोर्यत्
स्वात्मन् विधत्त उपलब्धपरात्मकाष्ठः ।३६।
so 'py etayā caramayā manaso nivṛttyā tasmin mahimny avasitaḥ sukha-duḥkha-bāhye hetutvam apy asati kartari duḥkhayor yat svātman vidhatta upalabdha-parātma-kāṣṭhaḥ
saḥ—the yogī; api—moreover; etayā—by this; caramayā—ultimate; manasaḥ—of the mind; nivṛttyā—by cessation of material reaction; tasmin—in his; mahimni—ultimate glory; avasitaḥ—situated; sukha-duḥkha-bāhye—outside of happiness and distress; hetutvam—the cause; api—indeed; asati—a product of ignorance; kartari—in the false ego; duḥkhayoḥ—of pleasure and pain; yat—which; sva-ātman—to his own self; vidhatte—he attributes; upalabdha—realized; para-ātma—of the Personality of Godhead; kāṣṭhaḥ—the highest truth.
TRANSLATION
Thus situated in the highest transcendental stage, the mind ceases from all material reaction and becomes situated in its own glory, transcendental to all material conceptions of happiness and distress. At that time the yogī realizes the truth of his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He discovers that pleasure and pain as well as their interactions, which he attributed to his own self, are actually due to the false ego, which is a product of ignorance.
PURPORT
Forgetfulness of one's relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a product of ignorance. By  yoga  practice one can eradicate this ignorance of thinking oneself independent of the Supreme Lord. One's actual relationship is eternally that of love. The living entity is meant to render transcendental loving service to the Lord. Forgetfulness of that sweet relationship is called ignorance, and in ignorance one is impelled by the three material modes of nature to think himself the enjoyer. When the devotee's mind is purified and he understands that his mind has to be dovetailed with the desires of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is the perfectional, transcendental stage, which is beyond the perception of material distress and happiness.
As long as one acts on his own account, he is subjected to all the material