Detachment, non-fondness with son, wife, and home;
unfailing equanimity upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and (13.09)
Unswerving devotion to Me by the yoga of exclusivity,
love for solitude, distaste for social gossips; and (13.10)
Steadfastness in knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and
the perception of (the omnipresent God as) the object of true knowledge is called knowledge; what is contrary
to this is ignorance. (13.11)
I shall fully describe the object of knowledge,
knowing which one attains immortality. The beginningless Supreme Brahman is said to be neither Sat nor Asat.
(See also 9.19) (13.12)
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