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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 8]
therefore cannot manifest the mode of ignorance in the form of anger, just as the pure sky cannot be polluted by the dust of the earth.
TEXT 13
यस्येरिता सांख्यमयी दृढेह नौ- 
    र्यया मुमुक्षुस्तरते दुरत्ययम् । 
    भवार्णवं मृत्युपथं विपश्चितः 
    परात्मभूतस्य कथं पृथञ्चरतिः ॥१३॥
yasyeritā sāṅkhyamayī dṛḍheha naur 
    yayā mumukṣus tarate duratyayam 
    bhavārṇavam mṛtyu-patham vipaścitaḥ 
    parātma-bhūtasya katham pṛthaṅ-matiḥ
yasya —by whom;  īritā —had been explained;  sāṅkhya-mayī —having the form of the philosophy analyzing the material world ( Sāṅkhya philosophy );  dṛḍhā —very strong (to deliver people from this material world);  iha —in this material world;  nauḥ —a boat;  yayā —by which;  mumukṣuḥ —a person desiring to be liberated;  tarate —can cross over;  duratyayam —very difficult to cross;  bhava-arṇavam —the ocean of nescience;  mṛtyu-patham —a material life of repeated birth and death;  vipaścitaḥ —of a learned person;  parātma-bhūtasya —who has been elevated to the transcendental platform;  katham —how;  pṛthak-matiḥ —a sense of distinction (between enemy and friend).
TRANSLATION
Kapila Muni enunciated in this material world the  Sāṅkhya philosophy , which is a strong boat with which to cross over the ocean of nescience. Indeed, a person eager to cross the ocean of the material world may take shelter of this philosophy. In such a greatly learned person, situated on the elevated platform of transcendence, how can there be any distinction between enemy and friend?
PURPORT
One who is promoted to the transcendental position ( brahma-bhūta ) is always jubilant ( prasannātmā ). He is unaffected by the false distinctions