The liberated one never disturbs the afflictions to purify himself. He is essentially inactive, without support, immutable, the supreme Śiva.

Śuddhi—purification—is herein repudiated as a method. The ātman cannot be purified, for it was never impure; impurity is but a projection of ignorance. The notion of niṣkriyātmā—the essentially inactive Self—denotes not passivity, but the transcendence of the activity-inactivity polarity.