BHAGAVADGĪTA ... 1

BHAGAVADGĪTA ... 1

The desireless man's action is inaction while the desirous man's inaction is action. 

The former in detached dissociation witnesses work being performed by Prakriti (Nature) using the agencies of the mind and the body which he does not identify with. The latter in idle inaction of the body but with mind dwelling on sense pleasures and pains which are the fruits of action, participates in mental action.

Likewise, the desireless man's inaction is action while the desirous man's action is inaction. 

The former in total withdrawal from the world of the senses lives purely in Self-consciousness whose field vibration at a detached distance produces the work of superconsciousness in the subtlest mode of Māyā. Hence his inaction is action. The latter in performing work erroneously understands himself to its doer which he is not as all work is performed by Prakriti (Nature) by means of unnumbered combinations of its gunas (modes). Hence, the ignorant person's claim to ownership of the work is rejected which makes his action nothing but inaction.

Written by Sugata Bose