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Bhagavad Gita / Chapter 5 / Verse 13
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Bhagavad Gita 5.13

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सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी | नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्

Transliteration

sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṃnyasyāste sukhaṃ vaśī . navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan

English

The embodied man of self-control, having given up all actions mentally, continues happily in the town of nine gates, without doing or causing (others) to do anything at all.

हिन्दी

सब कर्मों का मन से संन्यास करके संयमी पुरुष नवद्वार वाली शरीर रूप नगरी में सुख से रहता हुआ न कर्म करता है और न करवाता है।।

Explanation — English

All actions -- (1) Nitya Karmas These are obligatory duties. Their performance does not produce any merit but their nonperformance produces demerit. Sandhyavandana? etc.? belong to this category.(2) Naimittika Karmas These Karmas are performed on the occurrence of some special events such as the birth of a son? eclipse? etc.(3) Kamya Karmas These are optional. They are intended for the attainment of some special ends (for getting rain? son? etc.)(4) Nishiddha Karmas These are forbidden actions such as theft? drinking liour? etc.(5) Prayaschitta Karmas Actions performed to neutralise the effects of evil actions or sins.The man who has controlled the senses renounces all actions by discrimination? by seeing inaction in action and rests happily in this body of nine openings (the ninegated city)? because he is free from cares? worries? anxieties and fear and his mind is ite calm and he enjoys the supreme peace of the Eternal. In this ninegated city the Self is the king. The senses? the mind? the subconscious mind? and the intellect are the inhabitants or subjects.The ignorant wordly man says? I am resting in the easychair. The man of wisdom who has realised that the Self is distinct from the body which is a product of the five elements? says? I am resting in this body. (Cf.XVIII.17?50)

Explanation — हिन्दी

जगत् से पलायन करना संन्यास नहीं है। मिथ्या धारणाओं एवं अविवेकपूर्ण आसक्तियों का त्याग ही वास्तविक संन्यास है। जिस पुरुष की सम्पूर्ण इन्द्रियाँ एवं मन की प्रवृत्तियाँ स्वयं के वश में हैं और जिसके कर्म अहंकार और स्वार्थ से रहित होते हैं उसे ही अनिर्वचनीय आनन्द परम संतोष प्राप्त होता है। तब वह सुखपूर्वक शरीर रूपी नवद्वार नगरी में निवास करता है।नवद्वारयुक्त नगरी का रूपक उपनिषदों में प्रसिद्ध है। शरीर को उस नगरी के समान माना गया है जो प्राचीन काल में किलों की प्राचीर के अन्दर बसायी गयी होता थी। इस शरीर रूपी नगरी के नवद्वार हैं दो आँखें दो नासिका छिद्र दो कान मुँह जननेन्द्रिय तथा गुदेन्द्रिय। इस शरीर में जीवन व्यापार सुचारु रूप से चलने के लिए इनमें से समस्त अथवा अधिकांश द्वारों का होना आवश्यक है। जैसे एक राजा किले में रहकर अपने मंत्रियों द्वारा शासन करता है तब उसकी परिस्थिति मात्र से अधिकारीगण प्रेरणाशक्ति और अनुमति प्राप्त कर अपनाअपना कार्य करते है इसी प्रकार चैतन्य आत्मा स्वयं अकर्ता रहते हुये भी उसके केवल सान्निध्य से समस्त ज्ञानेन्द्रयाँ एवं कर्मेन्द्रियां स्वव्यापार मे व्यस्त रहती हैं।इस प्रसिद्ध रूपक का प्रयोग करते हुए श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं कि संयमी एवं तत्त्वदर्शी पुरुष शरीर में सुख से रहते हुए उपाधियों के कार्य देखता रहता है परन्तु स्वयं न कर्म करता है और न उपाधियों से करवाता है।और

Sanskrit
English
सर्वकर्माणि
all actions
मनसा
by the mind
संन्यस्य
having renounced
आस्ते
rests
सुखम्
happily
वशी
the selfcontrolled
नवद्वारे
in the ninegated
पुरे
in the city
देही
the embodied
न
not
एव
even
कुर्वन्
acting
न
not
कारयन्
causing to act.
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