Friends and enemies

Expressions researched:
"friend and enemy" |"friends and enemies" |"enemies and friends" |"enemies and friend" |"enemy and friend"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

BG 6.9, Translation: A person is considered still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners all with an equal mind.

BG 6.34, Purport: The mind is so strong and obstinate that it sometimes overcomes the intelligence, although the mind is supposed to be subservient to the intelligence. For a man in the practical world who has to fight so many opposing elements, it is certainly very difficult to control the mind. Artificially, one may establish a mental equilibrium toward both friend and enemy, but ultimately no worldly man can do so, for this is more difficult than controlling the raging wind.