ACTION IN INACTION AND INACTION IN ACTION
Bg. 4.18
कर्मण्यकर्म यः पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म यः ।
स बुद्धिमान्मनुष्येषु स युक्तः कृत्स्नकर्मकृत् ॥ १८ ॥
karmaṇy akarma yaḥ paśyed
akarmaṇi ca karma yaḥ
sa buddhimān manuṣyeṣu
sa yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt
karmaṇi — in action; akarma — inaction; yaḥ — one who; paśyet — observes;
akarmaṇi — in inaction; ca — also; karma — fruitive action; yaḥ — one who;
saḥ — he; buddhi-mān — is intelligent; manuṣyeṣu — in human society; saḥ —
he; yuktaḥ — is in the transcendental position; kṛtsna-karma-kṛt — although
engaged in all activities.
One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among
men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all
sorts of activities.
A person acting is naturally free from the bonds of karma. His activities
are all performed for Brahmam; therefore, he does not enjoy or suffer any
of the effects of work. Consequently, he is intelligent in human society,
even though he is engaged in all sorts of activities. Akarma means without
reaction to work. The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear,
so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of
self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the
eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, he
engages himself in the activities of HIS consciousness. Because everything
is done for HIM, he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge
of this service. Those who are engaged in this process are known to be
without desire for personal sense gratification. The sense of eternal
servitorship to Brahmam makes one immune to all sorts of reactionary
elements of work. ONE WHO IS ALWAYS IN ACTION BUT REMAINS INA CTIVE IN
TURIUM; WHILE ACTIVE HIS ACTION SO HARD IS NOT HIS ACTION, HENCE INACTION.
कृत्स्नकर्मकृत्= KRITHSNA +KARMA+KRTH=ALWAYS IN ACTION THE WORD
KR=IS TO DO; SO KRTH, NA KAARMA KRTH= IN NO TIME HE IS ACTIONLESS
In common parlance action means movement of the body? movement of the hands
and feet? and inaction means to sit yet. It is the idea of agency? the idea
I am the doer that binds man to Samsara. If this idea vanishes? action is
no action at all. It will not bind one to Samsara. This is inaction in
action. If you stand as s spectator or silent witness of Natures
activities? feeling Nature does everything I am nondoer (Akarta)? if you
identify yourself with the actionless Self? no matter what work or how much
of it is done? action is no action at all. This is inaction in action. By
such a practice and feeling? action loses its binding nature. A man may sit
inertly. He may not do anything. But if he has the idea of agency or
doership? or if he thinks that he is the doer? he is every doing action?
though he is sitting inertly. This is action in inaction. The restless mind
will ever be doing actions even though one sits inertly. Actions of the
mind are real actions. Nor can anyone even for one moment remain really
actionless? for helplessly is everyone driven to action by the alities of
Nature. (Chapter III.5 ) Inaction also induces the feeling of egoism. The
inactive man says? I sit inertly I do nothing. Inaction? like action? is
wrongly attributed to the Self. He is the performer of all actions who
knows this truth. He has attained the end of all actions? i.e.? freedom or
knowledge or perfection. When a steamer moves? the trees on the shore which
are motionless? appear to move in the opposite direction to a man who is in
the steamer. Moving objects that are very far away appear to be stationary
or motionless. Even so in the case of the Self inaction is mistaken for
action and, action for inaction. The Self is actionless (Akarta or nondoer?
Nishkriya or without work). The body and the senses perform action. The
actions of the body and the senses are falsely and wrongly attributed by
the ignorant to the actionless Self. Therefore, the ignorant man thinks? I
act. He thinks that the Self is the doer or the agent of the action. This
is a mistake. This is ignorance. Just as motion does not really belong to
the trees on the shore which appear to move in the opposite direction to a
man on board the ship? so also action does not really pertain to the Self.
This ignorance which is the cause of birth and death vanishes when you
attain Self-realisation K RAJARAM IRS 29724 30724
On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 17:40, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]>
wrote:
> “One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent
> among men.”
>
> N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004
>
> *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
> become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to
> a goal, not to people or things "*
>
>
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