देहस्तु सर्वसङ्घातो जगत्तस्थुरिति द्विधा । अत्रैव मृग्य: पुरुषो नेति नेतीत्यतत्त्यजन् ॥ २३ ॥
dehas tu sarva-sanghato jagat tasthur iti dvidha atraiva mrgyah puruso neti netity atat tyajan
- dehah
- the body
- tu
- but
- sarva-sanghatah
- the combination of all the twenty-four elements
- jagat
- seen to be moving
- tasthuh
- and standing in one place
- iti
- thus
- dvidha
- two kinds
- atra eva
- in this matter
- mrgyah
- to be searched for
- purusah
- the living entity, the soul
- na
- not
- iti
- thus
- na
- not
- iti
- thus
- iti
- in this way
- atat
- what is not spirit
- tyajan
- giving up.
There are two kinds of bodies for every individual soul—a gross body made of five gross elements and a subtle body made of three subtle elements. Within these bodies, however, is the spirit soul. One must find the soul by analysis, saying, This is not it. This is not it Thus one must separate spirit from matter.