Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 169

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-5 Karma Sanyāsa Yogaḥ

naiva kiñcit karomīti yukto manyeta tattva-vit | paśyaṅ-śṛṇvan spṛśan jighrann-aśnan gacchan svapaṅ-śvasan || 8 || 8. "I do nothing at all" — this would be the attitude of a focussed knower of the truth, even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing; pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇann-unimiṣan nimiṣann-api | indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta iti dhārayan || 9 || 9. Speaking, releasing, grasping, opening, closing the eyes etc., always aware that the senses operate among sense-objects. Commentary Thus, one who is Self-realised should reflect that all the sensory organs (Jñanendriyas) as also organs of action (Karmendriyas) and the vital energies (the Prāṇas) are merely occupied automatically with their own respective objects. One should therefore think:— 'I do nothing at all’ — ‘My essential nature is pure consciousness’. The sense of agency arises because of the association of the Self with the senses and the Prāṇas which originate from one’s Karma — it does not arise from one’s essential nature."