Verse 6.81

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

अनेन विधिना सर्वांस्त्यक्त्वा सङ्गान् शनैः शनैः ।
सर्वद्वन्द्वविनिर्मुक्तो ब्रह्मण्येवावतिष्ठते ॥ ८१ ॥

anena vidhinā sarvāṃstyaktvā saṅgān śanaiḥ śanaiḥ |
sarvadvandvavinirmukto brahmaṇyevāvatiṣṭhate || 81 ||

Having, in this manner, gradually renounced all attachments, he becomes freed from all pairs of opposites, and reposes in Brahman alone.—(81)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

‘Having renounced all attachments.’—‘Attachment’ stands for the notion of ‘mine’ that people have with regard to such things as the cow, the horse, the elephant, gold, slaves, wife, agricultural lands, houses and so forth. When this has been renounced, and the man has begun to delight in solitude;—having taken to this as the principal method, and in the manner detailed above—i.e., by the due performance of the temporal and spiritual acts prescribed—he ‘reposes in Brahman,’—which is of the nature of pure consciousness; and he is no longer fettered by actions. This is what is meant by the phrase ‘from ail pairs of opposites’—i.e., pleasures and pains as resulting from good and bad acts.—‘he becomes freed’—(81)

Explanatory notes by Ganganath Jha

This verse is quoted in Yatidharmasaṅgraha (p. 48).