No
one can, even for an instant, remain really action less; for
helplessly is every one propelled to action by his innate qualities.
III-5
Ambitious attempts on
the part of men to retire from activity and follow the path of Sanyaasa
lead to hypocrisy, self-deception, and increased impurity of mind.
The safer course for men is to seek to do things in a detached
spirit.
The man who sits,
restraining his organs of action, but dwelling in his mind on the
objects of the senses, deludes himself and is called a hypocrite.
III-6
But he is worthy who
controls the senses by his mind, uses his organs of action without
developing attachment towards sense-objects, and thus practises the
Yoga of action.
III-7
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