Word meanings
- pralapan
- by talking
- visṛjan
- by giving up
- gṛhṇan
- by accepting
- unmiṣan
- opening
- nimiṣan
- closing
- api
- in spite of
- indriyāṇi
- the senses
- indriya-artheṣu
- in sense gratification
- vartante
- let them be so engaged
- iti
- thus
- dhārayan
- considering.
Translations
Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening, and closing the eyes, one should be convinced that the senses move among the sense-objects.
Though he talks, gives, receives, opens his eyes, and shuts them, he still knows that his senses are merely disporting themselves among the objects of perception.
- Remaining absorbed in the Self, the knower of Reality should think, 'I certainly do not do anything', even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, holding, opening, and closing the eyes—remembering that the organs function in relation to the objects of the organs.
।।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।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)