ओज: सहो बलं प्राणममृतं मृत्युमेव च । तमज्ञाय जनो हेतुमात्मानं मन्यते जडम् ॥ ९ ॥
ojah saho balam pranam amrtam mrtyum eva ca tam ajnaya jano hetum atmanam manyate jadam
- ojah
- the strength of the senses
- sahah
- the strength of the mind
- balam
- the strength of the body
- pranam
- the living condition
- amrtam
- immortality
- mrtyum
- death
- eva
- indeed
- ca
- also
- tam
- Him (the Supreme Lord)
- ajnaya
- without knowing
- janah
- a foolish person
- hetum
- the cause
- atmanam
- the body
- manyate
- considers
- jadam
- although as good as stone.
Our sensory prowess, mental power, bodily strength, living force, immortality and mortality are all subject to the superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not knowing this, foolish people think the dull material body to be the cause of their activities.