“Next, the ‘state of samatva’: that is, one must have an equal attitude towards good and bad, happiness and sorrow, cold and heat. This is the fifteenth quality of Jñāna. Swelling up and sinking down is a vṛtti of no use. Happiness and sorrow, hardships and losses, blame and praise must be regarded as though they were God's prasāda. Where there are thorns, one puts on sandals and escapes their reach; when rain is falling, one holds an umbrella and escapes the rain; where there are mosquitoes, one ties up a mosquito net and keeps clear of their trouble. In the same way, if against the losses and hardships, the blame and praise, the likes and dislikes that come, one puts on the ‘samādhāna citta’, which is the grace of Īśvara, they cannot trouble men at all! That is why evenness of citta is necessary.”