Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

actions-nitya, naimittika, kamya and nisiddha
(prohibited actions); [See note on p. 128.-Tr.]
manasa, mentally, through discriminating wisdomi.e.
having given up (all actions) by seeing inaction
in action, etc. Freed from the activities of speech,
mind and body, effortles, placid in mind, and
devoid of all external wants which are different
from the Self, he continues happily. This is what
has been said. Where and how does the vasi, man
of self-control, i.e. one who has his organs under
control, remain? This is being answered: Navadvare
pure, in the town with nine gates, of which
seven [Two ears, two eyes nostrils, and mouth.] are
in the head for one's own experiences, and two are
below for urination and defecation. As possessed
of those gates, it is called the 'town with nine
gates'. Being like a town, the body is called a town
with the Self as its only master. And it is inhabited
by the organs, mind, intellect and objects, like
citizens, as it were, which serve its needs and
which are productive of many results and
experience. Renouncing all actions, the dehi,
embodied one, resides in that town with nine
gates. Objection: What is the need of this
specification? For all embodied beings, be they
monks or not, reside in bodies to be sure! That
being so, the specification is needless. The answer
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