Moreover,
सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु ।
साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते ॥ ९ ॥
suhṛnmitrāryudāsīnamadhyasthadveṣyabandhuṣu .
sādhuṣvapi ca pāpeṣu samabuddhirviśiṣyate .. 9 ..
He is esteemed, who is of the same mind to the good-hearted, friends, foes, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, relatives, the righteous, and the unrighteous.
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He is esteemed: He is the best among the Yogarudhas, among those who have attained to Yoga. [There is also another reading which means ‘he is liberated.’] Who is of the same mind: who thinks not of a man as to what he is or what he does. A ‘good-hearted’ man does good to another without expecting any service in return; an ‘indifferent’ man is one who is partial to neither of two contending sides; a ’neutral’ man is one who means well by both the contending sides. The righteous are those who follow the Sastras, and the unrighteous are those who resort to forbidden acts.