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नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्। पश्यन् श्रृणवन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपन् श्वसन्।।5.8।।

naiva kiñchit karomīti yukto manyeta tattva-vit paśhyañ śhṛiṇvan spṛiśhañjighrann aśhnangachchhan svapañśhvasan pralapan visṛijan gṛihṇann unmiṣhan nimiṣhann api indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣhu vartanta iti dhārayan

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 5, Verse 8
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
I do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, and breathing.

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Why: the true knower of the self thinks, even while seeing, hearing, touching, and so on, that they are not the doer, understanding that the senses simply function without needing the ego to claim credit for every action.

In life: a huge amount of what we do, breathing, digesting, reacting, happens without conscious authorship, we only feel like the doer of it because of habit.

Teaching: notice how much of your daily functioning happens automatically, without deliberate effort, and let that loosen your sense of needing to control or take credit for everything.

nanot
evacertainly
kiñchitanything
karomiI do
itithus
yuktaḥsteadfast in karm yog
manyetathinks
tattva-vitone who knows the truth
paśhyanseeing
śhṛiṇvanhearing
spṛiśhantouching
jighransmelling
aśhnaneating
gachchhanmoving
svapansleeping
śhvasanbreathing
pralapantalking
visṛijangiving up
gṛihṇanaccepting
unmiṣhanopening (the eyes)
nimiṣhanclosing (the eyes)
apialthough
indriyāṇithe senses
indriya-artheṣhuin sense-objects
vartantemoving
itithus
dhārayanconvinced

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
5.8 न not? एव even? किञ्चित् anything? करोमि I do? इति thus? युक्तः centred (in the Self)? मन्येत should think? तत्त्ववित् the knower of Truth? पश्यन् seeing? श्रृण्वन् hearing? स्पृशन् touching? जिघ्रन् smelling? अश्नन् eating? गच्छन् going? स्वपन् sleeping? श्वसन् breathing.No Commentary.