SánscritoIASTSignificado
एवम्evamthus; in this way
एवevaindeed; surely
एषःeṣaḥthis; he
संप्रसादःsaṃprasādaḥthe serene one (saṁprasāda — the soul in clear repose); the serene one; serene with repose
अस्मात्asmātfrom this; out of this
शरीरात्śarīrātfrom the body; out of the body
समुत्थायsamutthāyahaving risen; having gone forth
परम्paramwhat is higher; the transcendent
ज्योतिःjyotiḥthe light; the radiance
उपसंपद्यupasaṃpadyahaving obtained; having entered
स्वेनsvenaby his own; by his very own
रूपेणrūpeṇain form; in shape
अभिनिष्पद्यतेabhiniṣpadyateis manifested; he reaches fulfilment
सःsaḥhe; that one
उत्तमपुरुषःuttamapuruṣaḥthe highest Person (uttama-puruṣa); the supreme Person; the sovereign Puruṣa
सःsaḥhe; that one
तत्रtatrathere; in this
पर्येतिparyetihe walks about (pari + √i — 'he goes round'); he strolls; he moves everywhere
जक्षत्jakṣatfeasting (from √jakṣ — 'to eat, to laugh'); banqueting; eating
क्रीडन्krīḍanplaying (from √krīḍ); amusing himself; sporting
रममाणःramamāṇaḥrejoicing (from √ram); delighting; in bliss
स्त्रीभिःstrībhiḥwith women (strī, instrumental plural); with wives; in the company of women
वाvāverily; surely
यानैःyānaiḥwith chariots (yāna, instrumental plural); with carriages; upon chariots
वाvāverily; surely
ज्ञातिभिःjñātibhiḥwith kinsmen (jñāti, instrumental plural); with his own people; with relations
वाvāverily; surely
नnanot; no
उपजनम्upajanamthe appendage (upajana — 'an accretion'); the attachment; the adjunct
स्मरन्smaranremembering; recalling
इदम्idamthis; thus
शरीरम्śarīrambody; the bodily form
सःsaḥhe; that one
यथाyathāhow; like
प्रयोग्यःprayogyaḥthe draught animal (prayogya — 'what is harnessed'); the beast of draught; the yoke-beast
आचरणेācaraṇeto the cart (ācaraṇa, locative — 'to the harness'); into the harness; to the chariot
युक्तःyuktaḥit is yoked (yukta); it is harnessed; yoked
एवम्evamthus; in this way
एवevaindeed; surely
अयम्ayamthis; this one here
अस्मिन्asminupon It; in this
शरीरेśarīrein the body; in bodily form
प्राणःprāṇaḥthe prāṇa; the vital breath
युक्तःyuktaḥit is yoked (yukta); it is harnessed; yoked
The verse for which Indra lived a hundred and one years — and one of the dearest to bhakti in the whole Veda. The saṁprasāda, the serene soul, "having risen from the body and entered the highest light, appears in his own form" (svena rūpeṇa abhiniṣpadyate — the formula of 8.3.4, now completed). And here is what the liberated one does: jakṣat krīḍan ramamāṇaḥ — "eating, playing, rejoicing" — with his dear ones, in festal motion, "without remembering this appendage of a body"! Not an extinction, not a solitary shining — a feast, a play, and company. Indra's third fear — "to go into annihilation" — is answered once and for all: the summit of the path teems with life.
The Vedānta-sūtra ends with an analysis of precisely this bliss of the liberated (4.4), and the Gauḍīya tradition reads the verse as a Vedic window into līlā: the soul has an eternal form (svarūpa) and an eternal occupation — krīḍā, play in the presence of the Highest. The word uttamaḥ puruṣaḥ, "the highest puruṣa", the Gītā will take as a name of the Lord (puruṣottama, BG 15.18–19): the risen soul appears in its own form in the presence of the Highest Person — not in his place.
And the closing line puts a full stop to the anatomy: "as a draught animal is yoked to a cart, so the breath is yoked to the body". Not the soul is yoked! — the prāṇa, the working power. The soul, even in the body, was not a draught beast but a sovereign; death unyokes not it but the team. He who has understood this ahead of time already walks unharnessed while he lives.