![No human at any time can live without work even for a moment because the whole mankind is forced to do work under the compulsion of the gunas* (properties) of the nature. [Bhagavad Gita 3.5]](https://i0.wp.com/lh3.ggpht.com/-U7up61W6pUQ/UrvH73BQt2I/AAAAAAAAAqo/U6Zux3EOJd0/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png "Bhagavad Gita Verse 3.5 Sanskrit"){kind=small}
[Bhagavad Gita 3.5]
Implied Meaning: No human at any time can live without work even for a moment because the whole mankind is forced to do work under the compulsion of the gunas* (properties) of the nature.
*There are three types of gunas; tamasic which is about inertia, rajasic which is about desires and sattvic which is about intellect. Everybody has these three gunas in different proportion.
[Bhagavad Gita 6.26]
Implied Meaning: In whatever object etc. of the world this unsteady and wavering mind roams, the attention should be withdrawn from that and mind should be brought back to abide in Self.
Comment: Abidance in Self leads to happiness.
![There is no purifier like knowledge. [Bhagavad Gita 4.38]](https://i0.wp.com/lh3.ggpht.com/-aLfh8ToqIeQ/Uqf5t1rAQWI/AAAAAAAAAlw/6zXQZC5L6S8/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png "Purification of Mind - Gita")
[Bhagavad Gita 4.18]
The partial translation of the above verse is as follows:
That man who sees actionlessness in action and action in actionlessness, he is intelligent among men.
Here is my interpretation of the meaning of, “Actionlessness in Action and Action in Actionlessness”:
Actionlessness in Action
Any action is done by the three gunas. I am not the doer. I remain actionless irrespective of any action.
Action in Actionlessness
According to the law of attraction we manifest things by entertaining the types of thoughts in our minds knowingly or unknowingly. The thoughts in conscious and unconscious minds influence manifestation in the physical world according to this law.
[Bhagavad Gita 4.11, Line 1]
The above line is said by Krishn which implies, “In whichever way I am invoked, I respond in similar manner.”
![When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad-Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies ........ [Mahatma Gandhi]](https://i0.wp.com/lh6.ggpht.com/-Uo_PS8ukmFk/UmnZ4bu7ifI/AAAAAAAAAN0/Fj0rpI_My3Y/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png "Mahatma Gandhi on Gita")
In Bhagavad Gita [14.19], Krishn as Impersonal Consciousness says:
That moment when besides the three gunas, the seer does not see anybody else as the doer and recognises Me, Sat-Chit-Anand beyond the three gunas by substance, that moment he attains My form.