Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 23-25

He who, sitting like one unconcerned, is moved not by the Gunas, who, knowing that the Gunas operate, is Self-centred and swerves not; alike in pleasure and pain, Self-abiding, regarding a clod of earth, a stone and gold alike; the same to agreeable and disagreeable, firm, the same in censure and praise; the same in honour and disgrace, the same to friend and foe, relinquishing all undertakings, he is said to have gone beyond the Gunas.

What keeps this evenness intact is named here too, staying established in the self rather than being moved by the guṇas, extending all the way down to treating a clod of earth, a stone, and gold as equal, and friend and foe exactly alike.

This real distinction, separating the self from whatever mode happens to be dominant, is what allows someone to stay established without wavering. That same evenness reaches into the most ordinary comparisons, value, praise, honour, friendship, none of it exempted, closing the full description of what it looks like to live beyond the guṇas.