न केनचित् क्वापि कथञ्चनास्य द्वन्द्वोपराग: परत: परस्य । यथाहम: संसृतिरूपिण: स्या- देवं प्रबुद्धो न बिभेति भूतै: ॥ ५६ ॥
na kenacit kvāpi kathañcanāsya dvandvoparāgaḥ parataḥ parasya yathāhamaḥ saṁsṛti-rūpiṇaḥ syād evaṁ prabuddho na bibheti bhūtaiḥ
- na
- there is not
- kenacit
- by the agency of anyone
- kva api
- anywhere
- kathañcana
- by any means
- asya
- for him, the soul
- dvandva
- of the duality (of happiness and distress)
- uparāgaḥ
- the influence
- parataḥ parasya
- who is transcendental to material nature
- yathā
- in the same way as
- ahamaḥ
- for the false ego
- saṁsṛti
- to material existence
- rūpiṇaḥ
- which give shape
- syāt
- arises
- evam
- thus
- prabuddhaḥ
- one whose intelligence is awakened
- na bibheti
- does not fear
- bhūtaiḥ
- on the basis of material creation
The false ego gives shape to illusory material existence and thus experiences material happiness and distress. The spirit soul, however, is transcendental to material nature; he can never actually be affected by material happiness and distress in any place, under any circumstance or by the agency of any person. A person who understands this has nothing whatsoever to fear from the material creation.