Verse 8
Naiva kinchit karomeeti
Yukto manyeta tattwavit;
Pashyan shrunvan sprishan jighran
Nashnan gacchan swapan shwasan.
“I do nothing at all”—thus will the harmonized knower of
Truth think—seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping,
breathing.
One engaged in this process of yoga or the
science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the absolute
consciousness perceives himself as separate from the activities of
the body and that the senses reside in the very sense objects desired. Seeing,
hearing, touching, smelling and tasting are the functions of the organs of
knowledge - the eyes, ears, hands, nose and tongue.
The knowers of the Brahman or the spiritual
substratum pervading all existence being free from all conceptions of doer-ship
are not subject to reactions from their actions although performing so many
activities.
The Vedanta Sutra VI.I.XVI states that when
knowledge of the Brahman is realized, the result is the permanent eradication
of all previous reactions and the inability to receive reactions for any
subsequent actions.
How does the Sankhya Yogi react when he sees someone
acting?
He simply says, “That person is not acting,
because he is “ATMAN”. What is perceived as action is executed by his body, and
this action is colored by his intrinsic nature of three gunas.”
A normal jiva, on the other hand, thinks that
it is he or the lower self which acts, but as far as the yogi himself is
concerned, it is always the body which acts, irrespective of whose body it is.
He is totally above the “body consciousness”.
In Yoga Vasishta, Sage
Vasishta advised Lord Rama:
Karta bahirkartāntarloke vihara rāghava
“O Rama, externally engage in actions diligently, but internally
practice to see yourself as the non-doer and God as the prime mover of all your
activities.”
In this divine consciousness, the karma yogis see themselves as mere
instruments in the hands of God.
In one of the talks, the
author went on to teach few sadhakas that neither Sai nor any
incarnation, nor a jivanmukhta, actually do anything like normal human beings
do.
In both cases, in case of an avatar or a Jivanmukhta, from time to time, on a moment to moment basis, whatever is required to be performed by them, such actions just happen, and they do not plan or deliberate such actions.
And once such actions manifest from / through them, even while acting and after the action is over, they attach least importance to such actions.
Living, speaking, eating, acting apparently like any other human being, they are eternally in the realization of the truth that while their body / mind acts as per the requirement of the hour, the pure atman that they really are, is unmoved!
While the whole world may not be aware of the above truth about them, they have no urge / reason to even think as to why or whether the world is aware about such secret about their action less actions or the world is not aware at all.
Love.
