Chapter 2 · Verse 3

अहं किं कुरुते किं वा करोमि किमु वा जपे

ahaṃ kiṃ kurute kiṃ vā karomi kimu vā jape

Janaka cascades through a series of questions — doing, speaking, reciting, meditating — and then expands to the cosmic scale: what is the universe, what is liberation? His answer is devastating: all of it is merely a reflection (pratibimba) in him, like images in a mirror. There is no distinction whatsoever. This mirrors the Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka doctrine: the seer and the seen are not two. When all experience is recognized as a reflection in awareness, the division between sacred and profane, between spiritual practice and worldly activity, vanishes entirely.