Chapter 5: Karm Sanyās Yog(5.13)

Chapter 5: Karm Sanyās Yog
sarva-karmāṇi manasā sannyasyāste sukhaṁ vaśhī
nava-dvāre pure dehī naiva kurvan na kārayan||13||

Meaning : A self-controlled person (vashī), having mentally renounced all actions, dwells happily in the body — which is described as a city with nine gates (nava-dvāra-pura). Such a person, although living in the body, neither acts himself nor causes others to act. He understands that the true self (dehī — the embodied soul) is distinct from the bodily actions and remains unattached and uninvolved in worldly activity.

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