He whose understanding is unattached everywhere, in son, wife, and the other occasions of attachment, who has mastered himself, whose inner organ is brought under control, who is free of longing, in whom the thirst for the body, for life, and for enjoyments is gone, such a knower of the self attains, by renunciation, the supreme consummation-in-actionlessness. 'Actionlessness' is the state of being without action, which comes from the full awakening to the actionless Brahman as one's self; or it is the accomplishing of the state of abiding as the actionless self. That supreme consummation, the highest, unlike the consummation born of action, having the form of immediate liberation, he attains by renunciation, by right vision or by the giving up of all action that has right vision for its ground. So it was said: 'renouncing all actions with the mind, he rests, neither acting nor causing to act'. For one who has gained the earlier-described consummation, born of the performance of his own action as worship of the Lord, and in whom discerning knowledge of the self has arisen, by what stages the consummation marked by actionlessness, the standing in knowledge of the self alone, comes about, is now to be told.

With understanding everywhere unattached, toward fruit and the rest; with self conquered, with mind conquered; with longing gone, by the dwelling on the supreme Person's agency, gone from the longing for one's own agency; thus joined with renunciation, determined to be not other than relinquishment, doing action, one attains the supreme consummation-in-actionlessness. He attains the supreme standing in meditation, which is the fruit even of the discipline of knowledge. This is the meaning. He attains the discipline of meditation about to be told, which is of the form of the ceasing of the action of all the senses.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

'The perfection of actionlessness' (naishkarmya-siddhi) is the perfection of yoga whose fruit is actionlessness.