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Bhagavad Gita 5.13

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी।नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन्॥

sarvakarmāṇi manasā saṃnyasyāste sukhaṃ vaśī |navadvāre pure dehī naiva kurvanna kārayan ||

Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests in the nine-gated city, neither acting nor causing others (body and senses) to act.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Mentally renouncing all actions, the self-controlled soul enjoys bliss in this body, the city of the nine gates, neither doing anything themselves nor causing anything to be done.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 5.13 · SatsangVidya