yaá¹ hi na vyathayanty ete
puruá¹£aá¹ puruá¹£ará¹£abha
sama-duḥkha-sukhaá¹ dhÄ«raá¹
so 'má¹›tatvÄya kalpate
yam - one to whom; hi - certainly; na - never; vyathayanti - are distressing; ete - all these; puruá¹£am - to a person; puruá¹£a-ṛṣabha - O best among men; sama - unaltered; duḥkha - in distress; sukham - and happiness; dhÄ«ram - patient; saḥ - he; amá¹›tatvÄya - for liberation; kalpate - is considered eligible.
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. In the varṇÄÅ›rama institution, the fourth stage of life, namely the renounced order (sannyÄsa), is a painstaking situation. But one who is serious about making his life perfect surely adopts the sannyÄsa order of life in spite of all difï¬culties. The difï¬culties usually arise from having to sever family relationships, to give up the connection of wife and children. But if anyone is able to tolerate such difï¬culties, surely his path to spiritual realization is complete. Similarly, in Arjuna’s discharge of duties as a ká¹£atriya, he is advised to persevere, even if it is difï¬cult to ï¬ght with his family members or similarly beloved persons. Lord Caitanya took sannyÄsa at the age of twenty-four, and His dependents, young wife as well as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyÄsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage.