Essays on the Gita

The Divine Worker 187sannyasyādhyātmacetasā, freed from personal hopes and desires,from the thought of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, delivered from the feverof the soul, fight,” work, do my will in the world. The Divinemotives, inspires, determines the entire action; the human soulimpersonal in the Brahman is the pure and silent channel of hispower; that power in the Nature executes the divine movement.Such only are the works of the liberated soul, muktasya karma,for in nothing does he act from a personal inception; such are theactions of the accomplished Karmayogin. They rise from a freespirit and disappear without modifying it, like waves that riseand disappear on the surface of conscious, immutable depths.Gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ, yajñāyācarataḥkarma samagraṁ pravilīyate.