"Know also the distinction between Karma, Vikarma and Akarma. I shall tell you the main points of difference now. Listen. Many aspirants get confused about this. Not all can grasp the distinction. They take it that Swa-dharma is Karma and that all Karma done, not as Dharma, but with a view to earn Atma-jnana are Vikarmas! Whatever the Karma, if it is done in the darkness and confusion of Ajnana, however hard you may have exercised your abilities during the activity, its result can only be worry, grief and travail. It can never result in equanimity, balance or calm. Man has to win Karma in Akarma and Akarma through Karma - that is the hallmark of the wise."

"Akarma means action-lessness according to some. But to explain it in simpler language, understand that the activities of the limbs, the senses, intelligence, the feelings, the emotions and mind are all Karmas. Now, Akarma means among other things non-activity too. That is to say, it is the attribute of the Atma. So Akarma means Atma-sthithi, the characteristic of the Atma." When you travel in a bus or train or boat, the illusion is created that the trees and hills on either side travel along and the person feels that he is stationary! "The movement of the chariot imposes on hill and tree the quality of movement; so too, the person unaware of the principles enunciated in the Sastras deludes himself into the belief that the Atma is doing all the activities of the senses and the body. Which then is the genuine Akarma, activity-less-ness? The experience of the Atma is the perfect activity-less-ness; that is your real nature. It will not do if you simply desist from external acts. You should realise the Atmic fundamental, not merely renounce Karma; for it is impossible to be completely activityless."