That’s a true devotee of the Lord

Karma Sanyasa Yoga

Chapter 5, Verses 8-9

 

naiva kiñcit karomīti 

yukto manyeta tattva-vit 

paśyaṅ-śṛṇvan spṛśañ jighrann 

aśnan gacchan svapaṅ-śvasan

 

pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇan 

unimiṣan nimiṣann-api 

indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu 

vartanta iti dhārayan

 

 “I do nothing at all.” This is the attitude of a focused knower of the Truth. Even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes, he is always aware that he does nothing at all. He knows that the senses operate among sense objects and that he is separate from them.

 

“’I do nothing at all.’ This is the attitude of a focused knower of the Truth.” He knows that God is doing everything through him, “…even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, releasing, grasping, opening and closing the eyes...” In every action that one does, it is God who is doing it through the person.

 

“… he is always aware… that the senses operate among sense objects...” One becomes always aware. It’s like when you awake from a dream and you perceive that all that happened was just a dream. In that dream state everything seemed real, didn’t it? You were running, you could even feel people killing you, but then when you awoke, you said, “Ahh, it was just a dream!” No matter how real your dream seemed, when you awoke, you felt released, saying, “Phew! That was just a dream; it was not real.” Whatever the mind is thinking, whatever is being perceived through the senses, everything, in reality, is just like in a dream. 

 

Whereas those who are always aware of the ultimate reality remain constantly absorbed in the true Identity of God. As their minds are always focused on the Divine, they are not attached to pride and say, “I am doing this,” or “I am doing that.” No! They are always aware that it is the Divine who is doing everything through them. And if one is fully focused on the Self, focused on God and serving Him, there will be no duality. When duality disappears from the mind, there will be no trace of evil qualities like lust, greed, anger, infatuation or egoism. All these negative qualities, these ‘one hundred Kauravas’, will be killed, will disappear and vanish! The heart will be purified and the mind will be constantly under control. Even when they walk in the outside world, whatever they do doesn’t touch them at all. There is no anger in their hearts and no judgement in their minds. They are free! That’s a true yogi! That’s a true devotee of the Lord.

Bhagavad Gita