Bhagavad Gita 5.8
नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्। पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन्।।5.8।।
naiva kiṃcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit. paśyañśṛṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan.5.8..
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- न
- not
- एव
- at all / indeed (emphatic, with na = 'not at all')
- किंचित्
- anything
- करोमि
- I do
- इति
- thus (quotation marker)
- युक्तः
- the one who is united/disciplined (in yoga)
- मन्येत
- should think
- तत्त्ववित्
- the knower of truth/reality
- पश्यन्
- seeing
- शृण्वन्
- hearing
- स्पृशन्
- touching
- जिघ्रन्
- smelling
- अश्नन्
- eating
- गच्छन्
- walking/going
- स्वपन्
- sleeping
- श्वसन्
- breathing
Commentary
8—9. ' I do nothing at all* ; thus would the truth-knower think, steadfast,— -though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go5 seizing, opening and closing the eyes, — remembering that the senses move among sense-objects.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain (verses 8-9 discussed as one combined teaching in the source)
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