As one indifferent takes no one's side, so this one, established on the path that is the means of going beyond the qualities, the knower of the Self, a renouncer, is not shaken by the qualities from the standing in the vision of discernment. He makes this plain: he who stands firm, holding that the qualities, transformed into the forms of effect, instrument and object, move among one another, does not waver, does not stir; he abides in his own form. The use of the parasmaipada verb-form is from fear of breaking the metre, and there is also another reading. Further.

Seated as if indifferent: by the contentment of beholding the self as distinct from the qualities, seated as if indifferent toward all else; who is not made to waver by the qualities, by the door of hatred and craving; who, dwelling on it that the qualities are at work in their own effects, light and the rest, abides silent, does not stir, does not act in conformity with the effects of the qualities.

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.