| 13. Renouncing.
all actions by thought, and Selfcontrolled, the embodied one rests happily
in the ninegated city, neither at all acting nor causing to act.Actions
are either the obligatory duties (nityakarmani). or those arising on the
occurrence of some special events (naimittikakarmani), or those intended
for securing some special ends, and which are only optional (kamyakarmani),
of those which are forbidden (pratishiddhakarmani). The man who has subdued
the senses, renounces all actions in speech, thought, and deed, by discrimination,
by seeing inaction in action, and rests happily. He rests happily because
he has given up all action in speech, thought and deed, because he is without
worry, because his mind is calm, because, excepting the Self, all interests
(foreign to the Self) have departed from his mind,Where and how does he
rest ?In the body which has nine openings ; seven in the head, being the
organs of sensation ; two nether ones for the passage of the urine and the
dung. As having these nine openings, the body is said to be a ninegated
city. It is like a city, with the Self for its monarch, inhabited by the
citizens of the senses, mind, intellect, as well as their objects; all working
for the sole benefit of their Lord and producing consciousness of various
objects. In such a ninegated city the embodied one rests, having renounced
all action.(Objection):Of what use is the qualification he rests in the
body ? Every man, be he a samnyasin or not, rests in the body only. So,
the qualification is meaningless.(Answer):He that is ignorant identifies
himself with the mere aggregate of the body and the senses, and thinks:I
rest in a house, on the ground, on a seat. Such a man regarding the mere
body as himself, cannot indeed cherish the idea that he rests in the body
as in a house. |
