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The Blessed Lord said When light, activity and delusion are present, he hates them not, nor does he long for them when they are absent.

The Lord said: One who does not hate light, activity or delusion when they arise, son of Pandu, nor long for them when they cease,

Krishna begins his portrait, and the sentence runs over several verses. The first mark concerns the three qualities themselves, named by their effects: light, the sign of clarity; activity, the sign of passion; and delusion, the sign of inertia. The one beyond the qualities does not resent them when they appear and does not crave them when they go. This is remarkable. Such a person does not even reject inertia or cling to clarity. All three are allowed to come and go like weather, observed without struggle, because the person no longer identifies with any of them.