“Regarding karma and akarma, many are confused, with an anguish of not understanding. Its truth does not become clear to everyone so easily. They think that svadharmas alone are karmas, and that karmas done with Ātma-jñāna are vikarmas. Whatever the karmas may be, however much one toils at karma done with Ajñāna, it brings only suffering; it does not bring Śānti. To see akarma in karma and karma in akarma is the mark of a wise human being. Here they mistakenly suppose karmas to be three! Namely: karma, vikarma and akarma. But because vikarma is blended into karma itself, vikarma has not been used separately here. They say that karmas are what should be done, vikarmas what should not be done, and that what are called akarmas are the side of non-action. To put these so that they are easily understood: all the activity of the body, the senses, prāṇa, Buddhi and Manas is karma, and akarma means not doing karmas; that too is one meaning. The correct meaning of akarma is the state of the Ātma. It is superimposed on the Ātma.