sannyasyaste sukham vasi

nava-dvare pure dehi

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.

lokasya srjati prabhuh

na karma-phala-samyogam

svabhavas tu pravartate

na—never; kartṛtvam—proprietorship; na—nor; karmāṇi—activities; lokasya—of the people; sṛjati—creates; prabhuḥ—the master of the city of the body; na—nor; karma-phala—results of activities; saṁyogam—connection; svabhāvaḥ—modes of material nature; tu—but; pravartate—acts.

The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature.

na caiva sukrtam vibhuh

ajnanenavrtam jnanam

tena muhyanti jantavah

na—never; ādatte—accepts; kasyacit—anyone’s; pāpam—sin; na—nor; ca—also; eva—certainly; sukṛtam—pious activities; vibhuḥ—the Supreme Lord; ajñānena—by ignorance; āvṛtam—covered; jñānam—knowledge; tena—by that; muhyanti—bewildered; jantavaḥ—the living entities.