Having abandoned, by the knowledge described, attachment to actions and to their fruit, ever content, free of all longing for objects, without resort: a 'resort' is that, depending on which, one wishes to accomplish a human end; he is free of any resort that is a means to a desired fruit, seen or unseen. Action done by the knower is, in the highest truth, mere inaction, since he is possessed of the vision of the actionless Self. For such a one, having no purpose of his own, the giving-up of action with its means is what is in order; but when, for want of any way out of it, he engages in action as before, from a wish to hold the world together or to avoid the censure of the wise, then, possessed of the vision of the actionless Self, he does nothing whatever. But one who is the opposite of this, in whom the vision of the Self has arisen, in Brahman the inmost of all, the actionless inmost Self, even before the undertaking of action: he, free of every wish, seen or unseen, seeing no purpose in action for a seen or an unseen end, renounces action with its means and, his activity being only for the bare upkeep of the body, an ascetic steadfast in knowledge, is liberated. To show this the Blessed Lord says the following.

Having given up attachment to the fruit of action, ever content, content in the eternal self alone, without recourse, free of the notion of recourse to unsteady matter, the man who does actions, though he is engaged with his face toward action, does no action at all: under the guise of action, he does only the practice of knowledge. This is the meaning. Again the form of knowledge that action has is made clear.

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

Nor is the mere absence of desire and intention enough; having given up attachment, that is fondness, Krishna states the own-form of knowledge again, with 'ever content'. Such a one is of this character: he holds that he has the same form as the Lord, who is ever content and rests on nothing.