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title: "Verse 06.9 | Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4"
heading: "Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 06"
subheading: "= 06.9 ="
updated: "2025-02-02T00:00:00+00:00"
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url: https://ananda.icu/trans/bg/06/9
description: "The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union."
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suhṛn-mitrāry-udāsīna-
   madhyastha-dveṣya-bandhuṣu |
sādhuṣv api ca pāpeṣu 
   sama-buddhir viśiṣyate ||9||[↪](/trans/bg/06/9)
Well-wishers, allies, enemies, the neutral,
mediators, the disliked, and friends;
The saints and the sinners even,
equally conceived - this is more eminent.
Notes: The previous verse reviews equal vision and valence in relation to inanimate substances. In here, the same stance is related to interactive living beings, established in positive, negative, and neutral relations in the social sphere. An outstanding yogi remains impartial when faced with each of these classes of beings, regardless of how they present themselves, without self-rooted discrimination in perception and interaction. The equanimous yogi relates to all sentient beings from a self-dereferenced baseline of awareness, not leveraging them for personal achievement and gratification, but rather acts in service of their authentic needs and the ultimate well-being of the conscious collective.

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