Referring to the Bhagavad Gita, Ramana Maharshi observed, "We must realise that we are not the doer, but that we are only a tool of some Higher Power. Let that Higher Power do what is inevitable and let us act only according to its dictates. The actions are not ours; therefore, their results cannot be ours, either. If we think and acts so, where is the trouble?"
"Be fixed in the Self and act according to nature without the thought of doership" he notes, "then the results of action will not affect us. That is manliness and heroism."
Thus," he concludes, "'inherence in the Self 'is the sum and substance of the Gita's teaching."
[Talks with Ramana Maharshi, Inner Dimensions, pp. 48-49.]
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