मनस्यनीहिते शान्ते न प्रवर्तन्त एव ते । कर्मेन्द्रियाणि कर्मादावसञ्चारितयन्त्रवत् ॥ २६ ॥
manasyanīhitē śāntē na pravartanta ēva tē | karmēndriyāṇi karmādāvasañcāritayantravat || 26 ||
Translation
When the mind is stilled and free of wanting, the organs of action do not move to their work, like a machine no one sets going.
Word by word
- manasi
- when the mind
- anīhitē
- is free of wanting
- śāntē
- and stilled
- na
- not
- pravartanta
- (pravartante) move
- ēva
- indeed
- tē
- they
- karmēndriyāṇi
- the organs of action
- karma
- their work
- ādau
- to
- asañcārita
- no one sets going
- yantra
- a machine
- vat
- like
Meaning
The commentary: when the mind, free of desire, is still, the organs of action do not go into action, like machines that are not driven. With the mind at peace, the stirring of objects that moved those organs is absent, so in the jīva there is no movement. This, it says, is what the picture of the ocean without Mount Mandara meant: though the ignorant see the free one move, his moving is not established; in truth he does not act.