See how Janaka excels in the art of rising fully above dvandvas. The process is like peeling an onion, only to find no hub within. Vacuum is impossible. So you reach pure existence-cum-Consciousness, which everyone is.

Desire motivates all actions, secular or religious; ignorance initiates desiring – avidyā-kāma-beejam hi sarvam karma. Janaka points out that even the cessation of action, which the seeker aims at, falls within ignorance. In the state of wisdom, the body, senses, mouth and mind do all actions. The ‘I’ does nothing ever. Bhagavad Gita emphasizes (5.8,14 ), the Lord of the universe enjoins no doership or action on anyone, nor links anyone with the result of what is done. Self is free from all activities.

If ignorance is the cause of action as well as its cessation, be not concerned with both. The seeker is after knowledge. Leave ignorance’s products altogether. Live in knowledge alone. Leave all thoughts of action and inaction alike. See how Janaka leads the mind and intelligence to their loftiest level.

For the seeker, it is not activity or its cessation that matters, but knowledge, which is non-dual and hence beyond involvement and dis-involvement. Reflecting thus, one becomes absolutely poised.