^153:32 Seeing that whatever is pleasure or pain to, himself, is alike pleasure or pain to all beings, he, the highest of Yogins, wishes good to all and evil to none,--he is always harmless and compassionate to all creatures.

^154:34 'Krishna,' is derived from 'Krish,' to scrape: Krishna is so called, because He scrapes or draws away all sins and other evils from His devotees.

^155:35 Cf. Patanjali I. 12.

Practice: Earnest and repeated attempt to make the mind steady in its unmodified state of Pure Intelligence, by means of constant meditation upon the chosen Ideal.

Renunciation: Freedom from desire for any pleasures, seen or unseen, achieved by a constant perception of evil in them.

^157:38 Fallen from both: That is, from both the paths of knowledge and action.

^157:39 Since there can be no better teacher than the Omniscient Lord.

^158:40 Tata--son. A disciple is looked upon as a son; Arjuna is thus addressed having placed himself in the position of a disciple to Krishna.

^158:41 Everlasting years--not absolutely, meaning a very long period.

^159:42 Very rare: more difficult than the one mentioned in the preceding Sloka.

^159:43 Intelligence--Samskara: Store of experience in the shape of impressions and habits.

Strives . . . perfection: Strives more strenuously to attain to higher planes of realisation than those acquired in his former birth.

^160:44 Borne on in spite of himself: carried to the goal of the course which he marked out for himself in his last incarnation, by the force of his former Samskaras, though he might be unconscious of them--or even unwilling to pursue it, owing to the interference of some untoward Karma.

Rises &c.: lit. goes beyond the Word-Brahman, i.e., the Vedas.

^161:46 Wisdom: Knowledge from precepts, but not direct insight into the Divine Truth.

^162:47 Of all Yogis &c.:--of all Yogis he who devotes himself to the All-pervading Infinite, is superior to those who devote themselves to the lesser ideals, or gods, such as Vasu, Rudra, Aditya, etc.