Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.28.31

tiṣṭhantam āsīnam uta vrajantaḿ

śayānam ukṣantam adantam annam

svabhāvam anyat kim apīhamānam

ātmānam ātma-stha-matir na veda

SYNONYMS

tiṣṭhantam — standing; āsīnam — sitting; uta — or; vrajantam — walking; śayānam — lying down; ukṣantam — urinating; adantam — eating; annam — food; sva-bhāvam — manifested from his conditioned nature; anyat — other; kim api — whatever; īhamānam — executing; ātmānam — his own bodily self; ātma-stha — fixed in the true self; matiḥ — whose consciousness; na veda — he does not recognize.

TRANSLATION

The wise man, whose consciousness is fixed in the self, does not even notice his own bodily activities. While standing, sitting, walking, lying down, urinating, eating or performing other bodily functions, he understands that the body is acting according to its own nature.

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