Not by non-performance of the acts prescribed by the scriptures, does a person attain freedom from Karma, i.e., Jñana Yoga; nor by ceasing to perform such actions as are prescribed in the scriptures and are already begun bv him. For, success is achieved by actions done without attachment to the fruits and by way of worshipping the Supreme Person. Hence devoid of it (Karma-nishtha), one does not achieve Jñana-nishtha. By those persons who have not worshipped Govinda by acts done without attachment to fruits and whose beginningless and endless accumulation of evil has not been annulled thereby, constant contemplation on the self is not possible. It can be done only if it is preceded by the attainment of a state in which the operation of the senses have been freed from disturbance.

This view is put forward by the Lord: