यन्मन्यसे ध्रुवं लोकमध्रुवं वा न चोभयम् ।
सर्वथा न हि शोच्यास्ते स्नेहादन्यत्र मोहजात् ॥४४॥

yan manyase dhruvaṁ lokam
adhruvaṁ vā na cobhayam
sarvathā na hi śocyās te
snehād anyatra mohajāt


Text

If one considers oneself to be the soul, the body, neither or both, in all these cases, the person, situated with discernment beyond material affection, should not lament for himself or others.

Purport

It has been just said that because everything is under the control of the Lord, one should not lament. But when looking at the world, there is no real object of suffering. People may consider themselves as jiva (dhruvam) or as the body (adhruvam) or neither as jiva or body by being brahman (ubhayam), or having qualities of both consciousness and unconsciousness (va).53 All four types of people should not lament for their relatives, since they have no affection (snehad anyatra), being situated with discernment. Affection is the source of lamentation and is the root of ignorance. This affection is generated from illusion in the material world (mohajat). This indicates that the affection related to bhakti is not included here as a source of lamentation. Lamentation arising from bhakti, the sthayi-bhava of karuna-rasa, is most excellent.