नादत्त आत्मा हि गुणं न दोषं न क्रियाफलम् । उदासीनवदासीन: परावरदृगीश्वर: ॥ ११ ॥
nadatta atma hi gunam na dosam na kriya-phalam udasinavad asinah paravara-drg isvarah
- na
- not
- adatte
- accepts
- atma
- the Supreme Lord
- hi
- indeed
- gunam
- happiness
- na
- not
- dosam
- unhappiness
- na
- nor
- kriya-phalam
- the result of any fruitive activity
- udasina-vat
- exactly like a neutral man
- asinah
- sitting (in the core of the heart)
- para-avara-drk
- seeing the cause and effect
- isvarah
- the Supreme Lord.
The Supreme Lord (atma), the creator of cause and effect, does not accept the happiness and distress that result from fruitive actions. He is completely independent of having to accept a material body, and because He has no material body, He is always neutral. The living entities, being part and parcel of the Lord, possess His qualities in a minute quantity. Therefore one should not be affected by lamentation.