Ashtavakra Gita Verse 13.3
कृतं किमपि नैव स्यादिति सञ्चिन्त्य तत्त्वतः। यदा यत् कर्तुमायाति तत्कृत्वासे यथासुखम्॥३॥
3. Understanding fully that nothing whatsoever is really done by the Self, I do whatever presents itself to be done and so, I live in true happiness.
Actions are the expressions of thoughts and they are the disturbances in the mind caused by desires which are manifestations of our vāsanās.
Where vāsanās have ended, desires cease. Naturally, mind becomes calm of thought disturbances and the egocentric aggressive actions can no longer spring from that individual. That is the state of Pure Consciousness.
The Self is action less as it is full and all-pervading. In this great understanding, born out of direct subjective experience, Janaka withdraws from all his fields of endeavour and extinguishes the ‘I do mentality’ (ahaṅkāra) in him.
However, continues Janaka, whenever he is goaded to act in the world outside due to the pressure of his prārabdha, he does it willingly ‘as an agent’ of the Lord, the Self. With his abdication from the seat of the ego, his entire kingdom of delusion has rolled away from him and ‘so’, says Janaka, ‘I live in true happiness’.
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