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सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी। नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्।।5.13।।

sarva-karmāṇi manasā sannyasyāste sukhaṁ vaśhī nava-dvāre pure dehī naiva kurvan na kārayan

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 5, Verse 13
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests in the nine-gated city, neither acting nor causing others (body and senses) to act.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: mentally renouncing all actions, the self-controlled dweller in the body of nine gates neither acts nor causes action, resting happily, describing a state of deep inner rest that doesn't depend on outer circumstances changing.

In life: real rest sometimes has less to do with your schedule clearing up and more to do with your mind actually letting go while things are still happening around you.

Teaching: practice finding moments of genuine inner rest in the middle of an active day, rather than only associating rest with the absence of activity.

sarvaall
karmāṇiactivities
manasāby the mind
sannyasyahaving renounced
āsteremains
sukhamhappily
vaśhīthe self-controlled
nava-dvāreof nine gates
purein the city
dehīthe embodied being
nanever
evacertainly
kurvandoing anything
nanot
kārayancausing to be done

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
5.13 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.Commentary 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)