Chapter 5, Verse 9
प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि। इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्।।5.9।।
pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇan unmiṣan nimiṣan api। indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan।।5.9।।
Word by word
- प्रलपन्
- speaking (talking)
- विसृजन्
- releasing/letting go (e.g. evacuating)
- गृह्णन्
- grasping/taking
- उन्मिषन्
- opening (the eyes)
- निमिषन्
- closing (the eyes)
- अपि
- even/also
- इन्द्रियाणि
- the senses (subject of वर्तन्ते)
- इन्द्रियार्थेषु
- in the objects of the senses
- वर्तन्ते
- function/operate/engage
- इति
- thus (quotative marker)
- धारयन्
- holding (this thought) firmly; knowing/convinced
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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