कर्मण्यकर्म यः पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म यः | स बुद्धिमान्मनुष्येषु स युक्तः कृत्स्नकर्मकृत्
karmaṇyakarma yaḥ paśyedakarmaṇi ca karma yaḥ . sa buddhimānmanuṣyeṣu sa yuktaḥ kṛtsnakarmakṛt
谁能在行动中看到不行动，在不行动中看到行动，他就是人类中的智者；他已契入瑜伽（Yoga），是所有行动的完成者！
He who finds inaction in action, and action in inaction, he is the wise one [Possessed of the knowledge of Brahman] among men; he is engaged in yoga and is a performer of all actions!
通常，行动意味着身体的运动，不行动则意味着静坐。然而，正是“我是行动者”这种我执，将人束缚于轮回（Samsara）。如果这种观念消失，行动便不再是行动，它将无法束缚人于轮回。这便是“行动中的不行动”。如果你以旁观者或寂静的见证者身份看待自然的活动，感受“自然做一切，我并非行动者”，如果你将自己与无为的自性（Atman）认同，那么无论做了多少工作，行动都将不再是行动。通过这种修行和感受，行动便失去了其束缚性。一个人可能静坐不动，但如果他有行动者或施为者的观念，他便一直在行动，即使他静坐不动。这便是“不行动中的行动”。躁动的心即使在静坐时也会不断行动，因为心的行动才是真正的行动。没有人能真正地片刻无为，因为每个人都无可奈何地被自然的三种古纳（Guna）驱使去行动。不行动也可能滋生我执，无为之人会说：“我静坐不动，我什么也没做。”不行动，如同行动一样，被错误地归因于自性。凡是了解此真理之人，便是所有行动的完成者，他已达到所有行动的终极目的，即自由、知识或圆满。自性是无为的，身体和感官执行行动。无知之人错误地将身体和感官的行动归因于无为的自性，因此无知之人认为“我行动”，认为自性是行动的施为者。这是一种错误，一种无知。当获得自性证悟时，这种导致生死的无知便会消失。
In common parlance action means movement of the body? movement of the hands and feet? and inaction means to sit iet.It is the idea of agency? the idea I am the doer that binds man to Samsara. If this idea vanishes? action is no action at all. It will not bind one to Samsara. This is inaction in action. If you stand as s spectator or silent witness of Natures activities? feeling Nature does everything I am nondoer (Akarta)? if you identify yourself with the actionless Self? no matter what work or how much of it is done? action is no action at all. This is inaction in action. By such a practice and feeling? action loses its binding nature.A man may sit ietly. He may not do anything. But if he has the idea of agency or doership? or if he thinks that he is the doer? he is every doing action? though he is sitting ietly. This is action in inaction. The restless mind will ever be doing actions even though one sits ietly. Actions of the mind are real actions. Nor can anyone even for one moment remain really actionless? for helplessly is everyone driven to action by the alities of Nature. (Chapter III.5)Inaction also induces the feeling of egoism. The inactive man says? I sit ietly I do nothing. Inaction? like action? is wrongly attributed to the Self.He is the performer of all actions who knows this truth. He has attained the end of all actions? i.e.? freedom or knowledge or perfection.When a steamer moves? the trees on the shore which are motionless? appear to move in the opposite direction to a man who is in the steamer. Moving objects that are very far away appear to be stationary or motionless. Even so in the case of the Self inaction is mistaken for action and,action for inaction.The Self is actionless (Akarta or nondoer? Nishkriya or without work). The body and the senses perform action. The actions of the body and the senses are falsely and wrongly attributed by the ignorant to the actionless Self. Therefore the ignorant man thinks? I act. He thinks that the Self is the doer or the agent of the action. This is a mistake. This is ignorance.Just as motion does not really belong to the trees on the shore which appear to move in the opposite direction to a man on board the ship? so also action does not really pertain to the Self.This ignorance which is the cause of birth and death vanishes when you attain Selfrealisaion.