CH 5, Verses 8 & 9

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Chapter 5

Verses 8 & 9

 

N'aiva ki.nchit karomee'ti yukto manyeta tattva-vit /

pashyan shrunvan sprishan jighrann ashna.n gachchhan

svapan shvasan // 8

 

Pralapan visrijan grihnann unmishhan nimishhann api /

indriyaanee'ndriyaartheshhu vartanta iti dhaarayan //

9

 

The knower of Truth, absorbed in the Self, should

think, ‘I do nothing at all,’ though seeing, hearing,

touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping,

breathing, speaking, evacuating, grasping, opening and

closing the eyelids, knowing that it is the senses

that move among the sense-objects.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 47

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

“The knower of Truth, absorbed in the Self, should

think, ‘I do nothing at all,’ though seeing, hearing,

touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping,

breathing, speaking, evacuating, grasping, opening and

closing the eyelids, knowing that it is the senses

that move among the sense-objects.”

 

The man who has realized the truth of the Self sees

only inaction in action. While his actions, such as

walking, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,

etc., are going on, he has this kind of experience—“I

am not doing any of these activities. It is the sense

organs who are doing them.”

 

A wicked man may also say, “I am not doing any actions

harmful to others. It is my sense organs that do

these and so I am innocent.” But what he says is not

at all correct, because he who has not realized the

truth of the Supreme Reality has not attained the

state of renunciation of the results of his actions.

He, on the contrary, performs actions as prompted by

his impulse and desire in order to enjoy the results.

As such, he falls into bondage produced by the law of

action and reaction. But the man who has realized the

truth will not stoop down to such a level of leading a

wicked or selfish life.

 

Therefore, he alone who is the knower of Truth and

sees only non-action in all the actions of his

psycho-physical organism is fit to renounce all

actions, because of his realization of non-existence

of actions. Indeed, he who proceeds to drink water in

a mirage thinking that water is there, surely does not

go there for drinking water after knowing that no

water exists there.

 

In other words, a man who is aware of the mirage and

knows that there is no water will still see the mirage

but will not run after it to get water. Similarly,

the man who has realized the Self as real and the

world as a dream will not run after worldly pleasures.

Such a man alone can be the renouncer of actions and

not others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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