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प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः।यः पश्यति तथाऽऽत्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति।।13.30।।

prakṛityaiva cha karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśhaḥ yaḥ paśhyati tathātmānam akartāraṁ sa paśhyati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 13, Verse 30
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
He sees, who sees that all actions are performed solely by Nature and that the Self is without action.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: one who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone, and that the Self is the non-doer, truly sees, restating the earlier distinction between the doer and the deeper awareness that merely witnesses, now specifically in relation to action.

In life: taking excessive personal ownership over every single outcome you're involved in, rather than recognizing the many other forces genuinely contributing to any given result, is a subtle distortion worth correcting.

Teaching: for your next major outcome, whether success or failure, practice naming the other genuine contributing forces, circumstance, other people, timing, alongside your own role, rather than defaulting to total personal ownership of the entire outcome.

prakṛityāby material nature
evatruly
chaalso
karmāṇiactions
kriyamāṇāniare performed
sarvaśhaḥall
yaḥwho
paśhyatisee
tathāalso
ātmānam(embodied) soul
akartāramactionless
saḥthey
paśhyatisee

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
13.30 प्रकृत्या by Nature? एव alone? च and? कर्माणि actions? क्रियमाणानि being performed? सर्वशः all? यः who? पश्यति sees? तथा so also? आत्मानम् the Self? अकर्तारम् actionless? सः he? पश्यति sees.Commentary Nature is responsible for all activities. The Self is beyond all action. It is the silent witness only. He who experiences thus is the real seer or sage.He who knows that all actions proceeding from the five organs of knowledge? the five organs of action? the mind and the intellect are prompted by Nature and that the Self is actionless? really sees. He alone sees. He who identifies himself with the body? the mind and the senses and foolishly thinks that the Self is the actor is an ignorant man. He sees only with the physical eyes. He has no inner eye of intuition. The sky remains motionless but the clouds move across the sky. Even so the Self is actionless but Nature does everythin. The Self is destitute of any limiting adjunct. Just as there is no variety in ether? so also there is no variety in the Self. It is one homogeneous essence. It is free from any kind of characteristics. (Cf.III.27XIV.19XVIII.16)