| 14. But there is a way of renouncing action, and that is to devise a method by which, though we do all the
actions in the world, they melt and flow away from us. It i only
when this becomes possible that we can say that sannyasa has been reached. How to perform karma
and yet make it melt and flow away? Look at the sun. It acts night and day. Even at night it acts and lights
up the other side of the earth.
Although it works all the time, no one ever talks of the sun working.
That is why, in the Fourth Chapter, the Lord says, "I taught this yoga
first to Surya (the Sun-God). From him, Manu, the seeker and thinker,
learnt it." Though working all the twenty-four hours of the day, the
sun does not act. There is no doubt that this condition is truly wonderful.
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