Ashtavakra Gita Verse 12.6
कर्मानुष्ठानमज्ञानाद्यथैवोपरमस्तथा। बुद्ध्वा सम्यगिदं तत्त्वमेवमेवाहमास्थितः॥६॥
6. Abstention from action is as much the outcome of ignorance as the undertaking of action. Knowing this truth fully well, thus do I, indeed, abide in myself.
What is to be done and what is not to be done are both judgements of the intellect and intellect itself has manifested from the spiritual ignorance. As long as the individualised ego is asserting arrogantly, in order to tame and quieten it, selfless dedicated actions are prescribed and certain activities which express shamelessly the lower nature of the ego are forbidden, for those who are walking the spiritual path.
What is spiritual ignorance? Thinking the unreal (the manifested universe) to be real, the the Real (Self) to be unreal. This feeds our ego (I own this; I achieved this wealth, power, position etc) and the ego keeps pushing us into chasing the unreal.
Janak says here that, "knowing what is Real, I remain absorbed in its Constant Remembrance this always Abiding in It."
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