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238 outwardly, not into the inertia of Nature, but to the Lord in sacrifice, into the calm and joy of the Imper- sonal from whom all action proceeds without disturbing. his peace. The true Sannyasa of action is the reposing of all works on the Brahman. “He who, having aband- oned attachment, acts reposing (or founding) his works on the Brahman, brahmanyddhdya karmani, is not stain- ed by sin even as water clings not to the lotus-]eaf.” Therefore the Yogins first “do works with the body, mind, understanding, or even merely with the organs of action, abandoning attachment, for self-purification, sangam tyaktwatmacuddhaye. By abandoning attach- ment to the fruits of works the soul in union with Brahman attains to peace of rapt foundation in Brahman, but the soul not in union is attached to the fruit and bound by the action of desire.” The founda- tion, the purity, the peace once attained, the embodied soul perfectly controlling its nature, having renounced all its actions by the mind, inwardly, not outwardly, “sits in its nine-gated city neither doing nor causing to be done.” For this soul is the one impersonal Soul in all, the all-pervading Lord, prabhu, wvibhu, who, as the impersonal, neither creates the works of the world, nor the mind’'s idea of being the doer, na kartr'itwam mna karmdni, nor the coupling of works to their fruits, the chain of cause and effect. All that is worked out by the Nature in the man, swabhdva, his principle of self- becoming, as the word literally means. The all-pervading "Impersonal accepts neither the sin nor the virtue of any: these.are things created by the ignorance in the creature, by his egoism of the doer, by hisignorance of his highest self, by his involution in the operations of Nature, and