TEXT 11

Devanagari

कायेन मनसा बुद्ध्या केवलैरिन्द्रियैरपि ।
योगिन: कर्म कुर्वन्ति सङ्गं त्यक्त्वात्म‍श‍ुद्धये ॥ ११ ॥

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kāyena manasā buddhyā
kevalair indriyair api
yoginaḥ karma kurvanti
saṅgaṁ tyaktvātma-śuddhaye

Synonyms

kāyena — with the body; manasā — with the mind; buddhyā — with the intelligence; kevalaiḥ — purified; indriyaiḥ — with the senses; api — even; yoginaḥ — Kṛṣṇa conscious persons; karma — actions; kurvanti — they perform; saṅgam — attachment; tyaktvā — giving up; ātma — of the self; śuddhaye — for the purpose of purification.

kāyena: avec le corps; manasā: avec le mental; buddhyā: avec l’intelligence; kevalaiḥ: purifiés; indriyaiḥ: avec les sens; api: même; yoginaḥ: ceux qui sont conscients de Kṛṣṇa; karma: les actions; kurvanti: ils accomplissent; saṅgam: l’attachement; tyaktvā: abandonnant; ātma: le soi; śuddhaye: pour purifier.

Translation

The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.

Brisant ses attachements, le yogī n’agit avec son corps, son mental, son intelligence, ses sens même, que pour se purifier.

Purport

When one acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the satisfaction of the senses of Kṛṣṇa, any action, whether of the body, mind, intelligence or even the senses, is purified of material contamination. There are no material reactions resulting from the activities of a Kṛṣṇa conscious person. Therefore purified activities, which are generally called sad-ācāra, can be easily performed by acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.187) describes this as follows:

Qu’il relève du corps, du mental, de l’intelligence ou même des sens, tout acte accompli en vue de satisfaire les sens de Kṛṣṇa est purifié de toute contamination de la matière. Il n’entraîne ainsi aucune conséquence matérielle. On peut aisément accomplir des actes purs (sad-ācāra) en agissant dans le cadre de la conscience de Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī écrit à ce propos dans son Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.187):

īhā yasya harer dāsye
karmaṇā manasā girā
nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu
jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate

“A person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness (or, in other words, in the service of Kṛṣṇa) with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person even within the material world, although he may be engaged in many so-called material activities.” He has no false ego, for he does not believe that he is this material body, or that he possesses the body. He knows that he is not this body and that this body does not belong to him. He himself belongs to Kṛṣṇa, and the body too belongs to Kṛṣṇa. When he applies everything produced of the body, mind, intelligence, words, life, wealth, etc. – whatever he may have within his possession – to Kṛṣṇa’s service, he is at once dovetailed with Kṛṣṇa. He is one with Kṛṣṇa and is devoid of the false ego that leads one to believe that he is the body, etc. This is the perfect stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

« Bien que ses actes puissent sembler matériels, celui qui met ses paroles, son corps, son mental et son intelligence au service du Seigneur (dans la conscience de Kṛṣṇa) est libéré même en ce monde. »

Il est affranchi du faux ego car il ne s’identifie pas plus à son corps qu’il ne s’en croit le possesseur. Il sait que lui et son corps appartiennent à Kṛṣṇa. Utilisant tout ce qu’il possède (paroles, corps, mental, intelligence, vie, biens, etc.) au service de Kṛṣṇa, il est alors uni à Lui. Il ne fait plus qu’un avec Kṛṣṇa, et il est libéré du faux ego qui conduit l’homme à s’identifier à son corps. Telle est la perfection de la conscience de Kṛṣṇa.