Dispassion is the absence of passion toward the objects of the senses, the enjoyments seen and unseen, sound and the rest. Freedom from the sense of I is the very absence of the sense of I. The constant seeing of the fault in birth, death, old age, disease and pain: seeing, in each of these, the fault. In birth the fault is the dwelling in the womb and the coming-out through the birth-passage; in death too the seeing of the fault; in old age the seeing of the fault, the obstruction of insight, power and brilliance, and the being slighted; in diseases, the head-disease and the rest, the seeing of the fault; in pains, those caused by the self, by beings and by the gods. Or else pain itself is the fault, and the seeing of it in birth and the rest as before: birth is pain, death is pain, old age is pain, diseases are pain; birth and the rest are pain because they are occasions of pain, not pain in their own form. By thus seeing the fault of pain in birth and the rest, dispassion toward the enjoyments of body, senses and objects arises; and from that the instruments turn inward, toward the seeing of the Self. So, since it is a cause of knowledge, the constant seeing of the fault of pain in birth and the rest is called knowledge. Further.

Unattachment is the absence of attachment toward objects other than the self. Absence of clinging is, toward son, wife, house, and the rest, the absence of close embracing of them beyond their being instruments of scriptural action. And constant even-mindedness at the befalling of the wished and the unwished is the absence of gladness and agitation at the befalling of the wished and unwished things born of imagining.

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

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.