Verse 4.21-22

Verse 4.21: Rid of all cravings, with disciplined mind and body, bereft of all (sense of) possession, he, performing actions by the body alone, incurs no defilement.

Verse 4.22: “Satisfied by anything that chance might bring him, having overcome the ‘dualisms’ (pairs of opposites), and void of envy: he, even-poised in success and no-success, is not fettered even when he acts. (108)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

He enjoys in ever increasing scale the bliss of the Self-vision, leaving off all cravings, and waving them aside along with egoistic desires. This makes him remain contented with whatever circumstances bring him as his lot; for he is rid of all sense of meum et tuum (“mine” and “thine”). Whatever he sees or whatever he hears, wherever he walks, or whatever he talks, he takes all these actions to be an expression of his inner self—nay he views the entire universe as himself (his own spirit). How can such a one get fettered by any action? When one gets rid of the sense of opposites and otherness which creates jealousy, he remains jealousy-free; this does not need to be expressed in words. There is, therefore, no doubt that such a one, if entirely emancipated, is action-free, even when he performs actions; he lives beyond good and evil although he moves in the midst of such Gunas and their mortal evil.