Discrimination between the real and the apparent is possible only when the light of understanding is thrown on the facts and events which become its contents in experience. Cessation from physical action is not non-action, for one can be physically inactive and yet be performing actions in a different sense. Vital, emotional and intellectual action is real action. Cessation from actions like these would be real inaction. But man has no freedom to do this.
Action is the law of all individual life.
One is forced to act by the very nature of one s being. The Universe is a living organism and every element in it tends to fulfil the law of its unitariness. The duty of everyone, therefore, is to be conscious of this organic structure of the cosmos and attune oneself to its way of working. The Yoga which Krishna teaches is spontaneous action based on the consciousness of the absoluteness of God, the surrender of oneself to God, or one s steadfast concentration on God. Negation of action is not possible, but one can neutralise the effects of action by transmuting it into Yoga.