Sage Vasishtha
The ignorant man does not realize the unreality of the objects (big or small), because he has not realized the reality. He who has attained the state of pure being is never sullied, whether he lives or dies, at home or elsewhere, in luxury or mendicancy, whether he enjoys and dances, or he renounces everything and isolates himself on a mountain, whether he wears expensive creams and scents or he wears matted locks or falls into the fire, dies or lives till the end of the world-cycle. For he does nothing. It is only the conditioned mind that is tainted, because if its ego-sense and the notions attached to it. When all notions have ceased and wisdom has arisen, the impurities of the mind are removed, naturally.
The enlightened sage stands to gain nothing by either doing anything or by not doing anything. Even as a tree does not spring from a stone, desires do not appear in the life of a sage. Should they arise at times, they instantly vanish like writings on water. The sage and the entire universe are non-different from each other.
O Rama, the infinite consciousness becomes aware of the pungency of the chili: and this gives rise to the ego-sense, with all its differentiation in time and space. The infinite consciousness becomes aware of the savour in the salt; and that gives rise to the ego-sense with all the differentiation which seems to exist in time and space. The infinite consciousness becomes aware of the sweetness in sugarcane; and the infinite consciousness, being the indwelling omnipresence, becomes aware of the nature of a rock, a mountain, a tree, of water, of space and thus self-consciousness or individuality arises.
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"One who is free from desires, whose mind is well controlled, and who is without any sense of ownership, incurs no sin from works, as his actions are merely physical." - Srimad Bhagavad Gita
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