Karma-Sannyāsa Yoga · Verse 8

नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् | पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन्

naiva kiñcit karomīti yukto manyeta tattva-vit | paśyañ chṛṇvan spṛśañ jighrann aśnan gacchan svapan śvasan

‘I do nothing at all’, thus should think the united one who knows the truth, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, breathing.

Activity without identification. Na kiñcit karomi — I do nothing — is not denial of action but of separate agent.

The tattva-vit — knower of truth — sees that activities (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, breathing) occur, but there is no egoic “doer.” It is naiva — certainly not — affirmation of non-identification with the doer. Life continues; the attribution changes.