Non-attachment: attachment is mere fondness toward the objects that occasion clinging; its absence is non-attachment. Freedom from over-fondness: over-fondness is a particular kind of attachment marked by treating another as no different from oneself, as when, another being happy or unhappy, one feels 'I alone am happy, I alone am unhappy', or 'when he lives or dies, I alone live, I shall die'. Toward what? Toward son, wife, home and the rest, and, by the word 'and the rest', toward other utterly dear ones too, servants and the like. Both of these, since they are for the sake of knowledge, are called knowledge. And constant evenness of mind, sameness of mind. In what? In the gainings of the wished-for and the unwished-for: in those gainings, constant evenness of mind, not rejoicing in the gaining of the wished-for, not being angered in the gaining of the unwished-for. That constant evenness of mind is knowledge. Further.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Steady devotion to Me, the Lord of all, by a discipline that goes to nothing else; the dwelling in a place void of people; and the absence of fondness for the gathering of people.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

'Attachment' (sakti) is fondness; that very fondness, fully ripened, is 'clinging' (abhishvanga), as the lexicon has it, 'fondness is attachment, and that very thing, fully ripened, is called clinging'.