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प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि।

इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्।।5.9।।
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.9 · the yathārtha śloka (Devanāgarī Sanskrit · canonical)

🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
5.9 Though he talks, though he gives and receives, though he opens his eyes and shuts them, he still knows that his senses are merely disporting themselves among the objects of perception.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
5.9 Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes convinced that the senses move among the sense-objects.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
5.9 Yuktah, remaining absorbed in the Self; tattva-vit, the knower of Reality-knower of the real nature of Truth, of the Self, i.e., the seer of the supreme Reality; manyeta, should think; 'na karomi eva, I certainly do not do; kincit, anything.' Having realized the Truth, when or how should he think? This is being answered; Api, even; pasyan, while seeing; srnvan, hearing; sprsan, touching; jighran, smelling; asnan, eating; gacchan, moving; svapan, sleeping; svasan, breathing; pralapan, speaking; visrjan, releasing; grhnan, holding; unmisan, opening; nimisan, closing the eyes. All these are to be connected with the above manyeta (should think). For the man who has known the Truth thus, who finds nothing but inaction in action-in all the movements of the body and organs-, and who has full realization, there is competence only for giving up all actions because of his realization of the nonexistence of actions. Indeed, one who proceeds to drink water in a mirage thinking that water is there, surely does not go there itself for drinking water even after knowing that no water exists there!
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
5.8 - 5.9 Thus he who knows the truth concerning the self should reflect in mind that the ear and the other organs of sensation (Jnanendriyas) as also organs of action (Karmendriyas) and the vital currents (the Pranas) are occupied with their own respective objects. Thus he should know, 'I do not do anything at all.' He should reflect, 'My intrinsic nature is one of knowledge. The sense of agency comes because of the association of the self with the senses and the Pranas which are rooted in Karma. It does not spring from my essential nature.'
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
5.9. Taking, rejecting, receiving, opening and closing the eyes, bears in mind that the sense-organs are on their respective objects; and

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

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🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Sādhaka-Sañjīvanī tradition · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur · highest modern Hindi reading
।।5.8 -- 5.9।। तत्त्वको जाननेवाला सांख्ययोगी देखता, सुनता, छूता, सूँघता, खाता, चलता, ग्रहण करता, बोलता, मल-मूत्र का त्याग करता, सोता हुआ, श्वास लेता तथा आँखें खोलता और मूँदता हुआ भी 'सम्पूर्ण इन्द्रियाँ इन्द्रियोंके विषयोंमें बरत रही हैं' -- ऐसा समझकर 'मैं (स्वयं) कुछ भी नहीं करता हूँ' -- ऐसा माने।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
5.9 प्रलपन् speaking? विसृजन् letting go? गृह्णन् seizing? उन्मिषन् opening (the eyes)? निमिषन् closing (the eyes)? अपि also? इन्द्रियाणि the senses? इन्द्रियार्थेषु amongst the senseobjects? वर्तन्ते move? इति thus? धारयन् being convinced.Commentary The liberated sage or a Jnani always remains as a witness of the activities of the senses as he identifies himself with the Self or Brahman. He thinks and says? I do not see the eyes perceive. I do not hear the ears hear. I do not smell? the nose smells? etc. He beholds,inaction in action as he has burnt his actions in the fire of wisdom. (Cf.XIV.1923)
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
5.9 Yuktah, remaining absorbed in the Self; tattva-vit, the knower of Reality-knower of the real nature of Truth, of the Self, i.e., the seer of the supreme Reality; manyeta, should think; 'na karomi eva, I certainly do not do; kincit, anything.' Having realized the Truth, when or how should he think? This is being answered; Api, even; pasyan, while seeing; srnvan, hearing; sprsan, touching; jighran, smelling; asnan, eating; gacchan, moving; svapan, sleeping; svasan, breathing; pralapan, speaking; visrjan, releasing; grhnan, holding; unmisan, opening; nimisan, closing the eyes. All these are to be connected with the above manyeta (should think). For the man who has known the Truth thus, who finds nothing but inaction in action-in all the movements of the body and organs-, and who has full realization, there is competence only for giving up all actions because of his realization of the nonexistence of actions. Indeed, one who proceeds to drink water in a mirage thinking that water is there, surely does not go there itself for drinking water even after knowing that no water exists there!
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
5.8 - 5.9 Thus he who knows the truth concerning the self should reflect in mind that the ear and the other organs of sensation (Jnanendriyas) as also organs of action (Karmendriyas) and the vital currents (the Pranas) are occupied with their own respective objects. Thus he should know, 'I do not do anything at all.' He should reflect, 'My intrinsic nature is one of knowledge. The sense of agency comes because of the association of the self with the senses and the Pranas which are rooted in Karma. It does not spring from my essential nature.'
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
5.9 See Comment under 5.11
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।5.9।। एक ज्ञानी सिद्ध पुरुष भी जगत् में औरों के समान ही कुशलतापूर्वक कर्म करते हुए रहता है न कि पाषाण की प्रतिमा के समान निष्क्रिय होकर। सर्व सामान्य और स्वाभाविक क्रियायों की एक सूची ही इन दो श्लोकों में दी हुई है जैसे देखता हुआ सुनता हुआ৷৷.आदि। भगवान् कहते हैं कि जीवन की इन अपरिहार्य क्रियायों में ज्ञानी पुरुष किसी प्रकार का कर्तृत्व अभिमान नहीं रखता।निद्रा अवस्था में अहंकार के अभाव में हमें अपनी श्वसन क्रिया का कोई भान नहीं रहता। इसी प्रकार अहंकार के नष्ट होने पर उपर्युक्त सभी क्रियाएँ अपने स्वाभाविक रूप से होती रहती हैं। परन्तु ज्ञानी पुरुष को सदा यह भान रहता है कि मैं किंचिन्मात्र कर्म नहीं करता हूँ। इसका अर्थ यह नहीं हुआ कि सिद्ध पुरुष उपचाररहित नींद में चलने वाला रोगी बन जाता है दोनों में मुख्य भेद यह है कि नींद में चलने वाले को किसी प्रकार का भान नहीं रहता जबकि ज्ञानी पुरुष अपने चैतन्य स्वरूप के प्रति सदा जागरूक रहता है।युक्त अर्थात् आत्मस्वरूप में स्थित इस शब्द के द्वारा यह सूचित करते हैं कि अहंकार का पूर्ण त्याग करना केवल आत्मज्ञानी के लिये ही संभव हो सकता है। इस युक्तता में साधक तथा सिद्ध पुरुषों के भेद से कुछ तारतम्य होता है। जहाँ साधकगण अध्ययन श्रवण मनन आदि की सहायता से बौद्धिक स्तर पर स्वस्वरूप के प्रति सजग रहने का प्रयत्न करते हैं वहाँ सिद्ध पुरुष के लिए तो स्वस्वरूपानुभूति सदा सहज रूप में बनी ही रहती है।अत अहंकार का त्याग करने के लिए हमको आत्मज्ञान प्राप्त करना चाहिए। जाग्रत अवस्था के अपने व्यक्तित्व का विस्मरण होने पर ही हम अपने ही बनाये स्वप्न के शिकार बन जाते हैं। स्वप्नावस्था के दुखों का अन्त तभी होगा जब हम पुन अपने जाग्रत अवस्था के स्वरूप का साक्षात्कार कर लेंगे।इसी प्रकार मैं कर्ता हूँ इस अविद्या जनित कर्तृत्व भाव की निवृत्ति आत्मस्वरूप के सम्यक् ज्ञान से ही होगी कि आत्मा अर्थात् मैं अकर्ता हूँ। इसी तथ्य को इस श्लोक में दर्शाया गया है कि ज्ञानी पुरुष जानता है कि इन्द्रियाँं अपनेअपने विषयों में विचरण करती हैं जबकि आत्मा सदा अकर्त्ता ही है।यदि समुद्र चेतन होता तो वह स्वयं में ही उत्पन्न और नष्ट होती हुई लहरों को देख सकता। आत्मस्वरूप में स्थित ज्ञानी पुरुष शरीरादि उपाधियों द्वारा किये जा रहे कर्मों को साक्षी भाव से देखता रहता है। टंकण (टाइप) करते हुए हम अपनी उँगलियों को कार्यरत देख सकते हैं और तब टाइप राइटर पर चलती उँगलियों की क्रिया एक क्रीड़ा बन जाती है। यही स्थिति है ज्ञानी पुरुष की। चिन्ता और विक्षेप से रहित हुआ आत्मानुभूति में स्थित पुरुष का यह निश्चयात्मक ज्ञान होता है कि मैं किंचिन्मात्र कर्म नहीं करता हूँ।परन्तु कर्म में ही प्रवृत्त अतत्त्ववित् पुरुष को किस प्रकार कर्म करने चाहिये भगवान् कहते हैं

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5.9।। व्याख्या--'तत्त्ववित् युक्तः'--यहाँ ये पद सांख्य-योगके विवेकशील साधकके वाचक हैं, जो तत्त्ववित् महापुरुषकी तरह निर्भ्रान्त अनुभव करनेके लिये तत्पर रहता है। उसमें ऐसा विवेक जाग्रत् हो गया है कि सब क्रियाएँ प्रकृतिमें ही हो रही हैं, उन क्रियाओंका मेरे साथ कोई सम्बन्ध है ही नहीं।जो अपनेमें अर्थात् स्वरूपमें कभी किञ्चिन्मात्र भी किसी क्रियाके कर्तापनको नहीं देखता, वह 'तत्त्ववित्' है। उसमें नित्य-निरन्तर स्वाभाविक ही यह सावधानी रहती है कि स्वरूपमें कर्तापन है ही नहीं। प्रकृतिके कार्य शरीर, इन्द्रियाँ, मन, बुद्धि, प्राण आदिके साथ वह कभी भी अपनी एकता स्वीकार नहीं करता, इसलिये इनके द्वारा होनेवाली क्रियाओंको वह अपनी क्रियाएँ मान ही कैसे सकता है?

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