Ashtavakra Gita 13.3 -

Activities and interactions are natural, inevitable. Nature with its three guṇas keeps every being active in one way or another, as Bhagavad Gita emphasizes (3.5 ). It is also a fact that the activities take place only in the sensory, mental and ego levels. The Self is beyond these, and there in the inmost level within our body, no action springs or touches any time. Once this knowledge is firm, where is the question of the Knower getting involved in actions and their consequences?

This does not mean that he will remain inactive, for that is impossible. None acts because of himself alone. He is made to act every time. So, the right sense of harmony and attunement to truth will be to let the natural activities be as they occur, come or transpire. Do not interfere with them unduly.

Let the senses sense. Let the body move. Let the tongue speak. Let the mind think and intellect reason. Let the ego also do its part. But by none of them, does the Knower have anything to gain. Nor is he going to be affected or touched by them the least. With no desire as a motivation, no need to be fulfilled, he allows his body and inner personality to do whatever they feel like. At no time is he really involved in these. Hence no result or outcome will be registered in his mind or intelligence. Like waking state rising in the morning, but setting in the evening, activities also will take place. The Knower has nothing to get from them, or to lose by them. He is firmly established in his own ‘inmostness’.