SB 1.9.23

भक्त्यावेश्य मनो यस्मिन्वाचा यन्नाम कीर्तयन् ।
त्यजन्कलेवरं योगी मुच्यते कामकर्मभिः ॥ २३ ॥
bhaktyāveśya mano yasmin vācā yan-nāma kīrtayan
tyajan kalevaraṁ yogī mucyate kāma-karmabhiḥ

Synonyms

yogī — a yogī [a practitioner engaged in bhakti-yoga (bhakti-yogavān puruṣaḥ);77 or one whose psychic instrumentation is absorbed in transcognitive awareness (samāhitāntaḥkaraṇaḥ san)78]; tyajan — who gives up; kalevaram — his body; āveśya — while fixing; manaḥ — [his] mind; bhaktyā — with devotion; yasmin — on Him [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]; kīrtayan — [and] singing; yan-nāma — His name; vācā — by way of speech; mucyate — is liberated; kāma-karmabhiḥ — from the bondage to motivated conditional action [from the varieties of desire-based worldly and Vedic actions that are the cause of bondage to cyclic existence (nānā-vidha-kāma-maya-kṛtair laukika-vaidikaiḥ saṁsāra-bandha-rūpaiḥ)].

Translation

A yogī who gives up his body while fixing his mind with devotion on Him [Śrī Kṛṣṇa] and singing His name by way of speech is liberated from the bondage to motivated conditional action.

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