5.9 The list keeps going Krishna speaks
प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्
pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇann unmiṣan nimiṣann api indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan
speaking, letting go, taking hold, opening and closing the eyes — holding that it is the senses moving among their objects.
Explanation
The list keeps going, and that is deliberate.
Speaking, letting go, taking hold, even opening and closing the eyes — held as the senses moving among their objects.
Blinking is on the list. Whatever the Gita means by non-doership, it is not the grand renunciation of great deeds; it reaches all the way down to things nobody thought they were choosing anyway.
Word by word
- 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.
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