Equal in honour and dishonour, equal toward friend and foe, having renounced all personal undertakings — that one is said to have transcended the guṇas.

The final attributes of the guṇātīta: equanimity in honour and dishonour (māna-apamāna) — the opinion of others neither inflates nor deflates; equanimity toward friend and enemy (mitra-ari-pakṣa) — the same warm awareness meets all without the partitioning of preference; and sarvārambha-parityāgī — the renunciation of all personal undertakings, meaning action without the ego's signature of ownership and agenda. This is the person. Sa guṇātītaḥ ucyate — this one is called the transcender of the guṇas. Not someone who has escaped the world, but someone who lives in the world with a freedom the world cannot disturb.