Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 8
Chapter 5
Verse 9 of 29
Verse 10
Verse 5.09
प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि। इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ॥5.9॥
5.09 pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇann unmiṣan nimiṣann api indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

Speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes as well, "The senses operate among the objects of the senses," holding to this thought.

Stoller MillerLiterary

When talking, giving, taking, opening and closing his eyes, he keeps thinking, “It is the senses that engage in sense objects.”

ZaehnerJesuit

(9) talking, evacuating, grasping, opening and shutting the eyes. 'The senses are busied with their proper objects: [what has that to do with me?' This is the way] he thinks.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

5.8-5.9 Remaining absorbed in the Self, the knower of Reality should think, 'I certainly do not do anything', even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, holding, opening and closing the eyes-remembering that the organs function in relation to the objects of the organs.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

5.9 Speaking, discharging, grasping, opening, closing his eyes etc. He should always bear in mind that the senses operate among sense objects.

SivanandaVedanta

5.9 Speaking, letting go, seizing, opening and closing the eyes -- convinced that the senses move among the sense-objects.

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Verse 8
Chapter 5
Verse 9 of 29
Verse 10