प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः ।
यः पश्यति तथात्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति ।। १३.२९ ।।

prakṛtyaiva ca karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśa: |
ya: paśyati tathātmānam-akartāraṃ sa paśyati || 13.29 ||

Any instruction in the field of spiritual wisdom must focus on the body-different Soul – its supremely unaffected and uninvolved nature. The universal magnitude of the Soul must also have its supreme place in spiritual instruction.

Non-doership leads to Universal dimension

This is to enable the seeker to understand and imbibe these qualities so that he begins to express both unaffectedness and the universal dimension of the mind. Only when these are amply present, the evil called bondage will cease, gracing the seeker with freedom and contentment. It is such mental and intelligential freedom and contentment that go by the name mukti or liberation.

Thus, Krishna’s spiritual instruction, like that of any other Knower, includes and details the crucial spiritual quest and fulfillment:

He who ‘sees’ all activities as instrumented by prakṛti alone, and likewise sees the Self as ever the non-doer, is the true Seer.

The whole creation is governed by laws and processes that are universal. Krishna calls this wholesome operative process prakṛti, Nature. Every one has an individual body together with the individual ego it gives rise to. This feeling of individuality produces a strong sense of separateness and of being the kartā – the actor.

But, Krishna emphatically declares that activities of any kind whatsoever are done by prakṛti alone. This is a point he has been repeatedly stressing (3.5,27,29,33). While ceaseless activity prevails everywhere and in everything, there is a core in everyone that remains untouched by the cyclone of vibration and activity. Krishna calls it the akartā, the non-doer.

As the earth is rid of gravity in its centre, quite unlike what it generates all over its periphery, within every individual abides a core existence, which is truly beyond prakṛti and hence untouched by all activities. The one who knows this central identity within him becomes free. For him there will not arise any conflict or contradiction, religious or spiritual, from any action.