सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी | नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन् ||५-१३||
sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṃnyasyāste sukhaṃ vaśī . navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan ||5-13||
Chapter 5 · Verse 13
Karma Sannyasa Yoga
कर्मसंन्यासयोग
In plain words
All actions -- (1) Nitya Karmas These are obligatory duties. Their performance does not produce any merit but their nonperformance produces demerit. Sandhyavandana etc.
Translation
5.13 The embodied self, mentally resigning all actions as belonging to the city of nine gates (i.e., the body) and becoming self-controlled, dwells happily, neither himself acting nor causing the body to act.
Meaning
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)
Word by word
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.