Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.23.42

dvija uvāca

nāyaḿ jano me sukha-duḥkha-hetur

na devatātmā graha-karma-kālāḥ

manaḥ paraḿ kāraṇam āmananti

saḿsāra-cakraḿ parivartayed yat

SYNONYMS

dvijaḥ uvāca — the brāhmaṇa said; na — not; ayam — these; janaḥ — people; me — my; sukha — of happiness; duḥkha — and distress; hetuḥ — the cause; na — nor; devatā — the demigods; ātmā — my own body; graha — the controlling planets; karma — my past work; kālāḥ — or time; manaḥ — the mind; param — rather only; kāraṇaḿ — the cause; āmananti — is called by standard authorities; saḿsāra — of material life; cakram — the cycle; parivartayet — causes to rotate; yat — which.

TRANSLATION

The brāhmaṇa said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress. Neither are the demigods, my own body, the planets, my past work, or time. Rather, it is the mind alone that causes happiness and distress and perpetuates the rotation of material life.

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