The City of Nine Gates [the Material Body]
Bg. 5.13 सर्वकर्माणि मनसा सन्न्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी । नवद्वारे पुरे देही नैव कुर्वन्न कारयन् ॥ १३ ॥ sarva-karmāṇi manasā sannyasyāste sukhaṁ vaśī nava-dvāre pure dehī naiva kurvan na kārayan Synonyms sarva — all ; karmāṇi — activities ; manasā — by the mind ; sannyasya — giving up ; āste — remains ; sukham — in happiness ; vaśī — one who is controlled ; nava - dvāre — in the place where there are nine gates ; pure — in the city ; dehī — the embodied soul ; na — never ; eva — certainly ; kurvan — doing anything ; na — not ; kārayan — causing to be done . Translation When the embodied living being controls his nature and mentally renounces all actions, he resides happily in the city of nine gates [the material body], neither working nor causing work to be done. Purport by MGDAS For an in-depth study of the city of nine gates [the material body] , please study the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto 4: The Creation of the Fourth Order, Chapter twenty-five: The Descriptions of the ...