1216 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 28

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so ‘py etaya caramaya manaso nivrttya
tasmin mahimny avasitah sukha-duhkha- bahye
hetutvam apy asati kartari duhkhayor yat
svalman vidhatta upalabdha-paratma-kasthah

sah—the yogi; api— moreover; etayd— by this; caramaya— ultimate;
manasah—of the mind; nivrttya—by cessation of material reaction; tasmin—
in his; mahimni-—ultimate glory; avasitah—situated; sukha-duhkha-bahye—
outside of happiness and distress; hetutuam—the cause; api—indeed; asati—
a product of ignorance; kartari—in the false ego; duhkhayoh—of pleasure
and pain; yat—which; sva-Gtman—to his own self; vidhatte—he attributes;
upalabdha—realized; para-atma—of the Personality of Godhead; kdsthah—
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
yogi 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 onc 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
