Give up all actions prescribed in śruti, smṛti and purāṇas.Having become immobile through dissolution, the yogi is absorbed in yoga.

This verse is radical in its statement.Śruti (the Vedas), smṛti (the texts of tradition) and purāṇas (the sacred mythologies) prescribe all kinds of karmas — rituals, duties, observances.Svātmārāma says: sarvaṃ vivarjayet — give up all that.

It is not a nihilistic rejection of tradition but rather a recognition that ritual actions, however sacred, belong to the domain of duality.They are means, not ends.When the yogi attains laya — dissolution in the source — the means become unnecessary.

Niścalībhūta — having become immobile — describes the state where there is no compulsion to act.From this immobility, action can arise spontaneously without egoic motivation.Mallinson observes that statements like this placed haṭha yoga in tension with Brahmanical orthodoxy, although the text also shows respect for the tradition.The Bihar School interprets this as an indication of transcendence, not rejection: the yogi has integrated what the rituals symbolize.