इन्द्रियैरिन्द्रियार्थेषु गुणैरपि गुणेषु च । गृह्यमाणेष्वहं कुर्यान्न विद्वान् यस्त्वविक्रिय: ॥ ९ ॥
indriyair indriyārtheṣu guṇair api guṇeṣu ca gṛhyamāṇeṣv ahaṁ kuryān na vidvān yas tv avikriyaḥ
- indriyaiḥ
- by the senses
- indriya
- of the senses
- artheṣu
- in the objects
- guṇaiḥ
- by those generated from the modes of nature
- api
- even
- guṇeṣu
- in those generated by the same modes
- ca
- also
- gṛhyamāṇeṣu
- as they are being accepted
- aham
- false ego
- kuryāt
- should create
- na
- not
- vidvān
- one who is enlightened
- yaḥ
- who
- tu
- indeed
- avikriyaḥ
- is not affected by material desire
An enlightened person who is free from the contamination of material desire does not consider himself to be the performer of bodily activities; rather, he knows that in all such activities it is only the senses, born of the modes of nature, that are contacting sense objects born of the same modes of nature.