नाऽहं देहस्य नो देहो मम नाऽयमहं तथा । इति विश्रान्तचित्ता ये ते मुने पुरुषोत्तमाः ॥ ५३ ॥
nā’haṁ dēhasya nō dēhō mama nā’yamahaṁ tathā | iti viśrāntacittā yē tē munē puruṣōttamāḥ || 53 ||
Translation
"I am not the body's, nor is the body mine, nor am I this": those whose minds rest so, O sage, are the best of men.
Word by word
- na
- not
- ahaṁ
- I am
- dēhasya
- the body's
- nō
- nor
- dēhō
- (dehaḥ) the body
- mama
- mine
- ayam
- this
- tathā
- nor
- iti
- so
- viśrānta
- rest
- cittā
- whose minds
- yē
- those
- tē
- they
- munē
- O sage
- puruṣa
- of men
- uttamāḥ
- are the best
Meaning
Here, after so much condemnation, is the positive teaching of the sarga in a single line. Three negations: I do not belong to the body; the body does not belong to me; I am not it. Those whose minds "rest" (viśrānta) in this, as the Dwivedi text says, having reflected and come to rest in the Self, are puruṣottama, the best of persons. It is a sentence to be repeated and contemplated. The reader may take it as the practice that the whole sarga has been preparing.