| 9. I do nothing
at all ; thus would the truthknower think, steadfastthough seeing, hearing,
touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting
go seizing, opening and closing the eyes,remembering that the senses move
among senseobjects.The truthknower is he who knows the true nature of the
Self, who sees the Supreme Reality.When and how would he think so ever intent
on the truth The answer is given thus: though seeing, etc.The duty of the
man who, thus knowing the truth and thinking rightly, sees only inaction
in actionsin all the movements of the body and the sensesconsists in renouncing
all actions ; for, he sees the absence of action. The man, for instances,
who thinks of quenching his thirst in a mirage, mistaking it for water,
will not, even after knowing that it is no water, resort to the same place
for the purpose of quenching his thirst.KarmaYogin is untainted by the results
of his action.But as to the man who is not a truthknower: and is engaged
in action: |
