देहोऽपि दैववशग: खलु कर्म यावत् स्वारम्भकं प्रतिसमीक्षत एव सासु: । तं सप्रपञ्चमधिरूढसमाधियोग: स्वाप्नं पुनर्न भजते प्रतिबुद्धवस्तु: ॥ ३८ ॥
deho ’pi daiva-vasagah khalu karma yavat svarambhakam pratisamiksata eva sasuh tam sa-prapancam adhirudha-samadhi-yogah svapnam punar na bhajate pratibuddha-vastuh
- dehah
- the body
- api
- moreover
- daiva-vasa-gah
- under the control of the Personality of Godhead
- khalu
- indeed
- karma
- activities
- yavat
- as much as
- sva-arambhakam
- begun by himself
- pratisamiksate
- continues to function
- eva
- certainly
- sa-asuh
- along with the senses
- tam
- the body
- sa-prapancam
- with its expansions
- adhirudha-samadhi-yogah
- being situated in samadhi by yoga practice
- svapnam
- born in a dream
- punah
- again
- na
- not
- bhajate
- he does accept as his own
- pratibuddha
- awake
- vastuh
- to his constitutional position
The body of such a liberated yogi, along with the senses, is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it functions until its destined activities are finished. The liberated devotee, being awake to his constitutional position and thus situated in samadhi, the highest perfectional stage of yoga, does not accept the by-products of the material body as his own. Thus he considers his bodily activities to be like the activities of a body in a dream.