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आत्मा नित्यो ऽव्ययः शुद्ध एकः क्षेत्रज्ञ आश्रयः ।
अविक्रियः स्वदृग्हेतुर् व्यापको ऽसङ्ग्यनावृतः ।
एतैर्द्वादशभिर्विद्वान् आत्मनो लक्षणैः परैः ।
अहं ममेत्यसद्भावं देहादौ मोहजं त्यजेत् ॥ २० ॥
अविक्रियः स्वदृग्हेतुर् व्यापको ऽसङ्ग्यनावृतः ।
एतैर्द्वादशभिर्विद्वान् आत्मनो लक्षणैः परैः ।
अहं ममेत्यसद्भावं देहादौ मोहजं त्यजेत् ॥ २० ॥
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atma nityo 'vyayah suddha
ekah ksetra-jna asrayah
avikriyah sva-drg hetur
vyapako 'saṅgy anavrtah
etair dvadasabhir vidvan
atmano laksanaih paraih
aham mamety asad-bhavam
dehadau mohajam tyajet
atma-the spirit soul, the part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nityah-without birth or death; avyayah-with no possibility of dwindling; suddhah-without the material contamination of attachment and detachment; ekah-individual; ksetra-jnah-who knows and is therefore different from the material body; asrayah-the original foundation;1 avikriyah-not undergoing changes like the body;2 sva-drk-self-illuminated;3 hetuh-the cause of all causes; vyapakah-spreading throughout the body in the form of consciousness; asaṅgi-not depending on the body (free to transmigrate from one body to another); anavrtah-not covered by material contamination; etaih-by all these; dvadasabhih-twelve; vidvan-a person who is not foolish but fully aware of things as they are; atmanah-of the spirit soul; laksanaih-symptoms; paraih-transcendental; aham-I ("I am this body"); mama-mine ("everything in relationship with this body is mine"); iti-thus; asat-bhavam-a false conception of life; deha-adau-identifying oneself with the material body and then with one's wife, children, family, community, nation and so on; moha-jam-produced from illusory knowledge; tyajet-must give up.
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