Verse 5

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In plain words

I have no part in the onward rush of the world's business. Nor do I hold back from base cravings because I think they would bind me. Going out, drawing back — both are only movements of this mind. So: That, precisely, am I; That is my very nature. I am Śiva.

Close to the Sanskrit

Not mine is engagement in the current of the world's course; not mine, through the notion of bondage, is abstention from base pursuits. Since engagement, together with cessation, is a mode of this mind — That indeed am I, having That as my own nature: Śiva am I.