Acharya Prashant explains that action without attachment is Yoga. This is only possible when the actor is very innocent and healthy. Such an actor acts just for fun and for no reason. This kind of acting has a beautiful quality because it is not the action of a beggar. In contrast, when you are desirous of a result, you act like a beggar who acts in order to get a result. A beggar approaches you not out of love, but because he wants something from you; he wants a result. This is how most of mankind goes through life, doing whatever it does for the sake of getting something, and that is 'viyoga' (disunion, separation). Shri Krishna advises against this, saying, "No! Don't act to get. Realize that you have already got it, and then act." This inverts the way we typically act. We act so that we may get, whereas Shri Krishna says, "Get, and then act." This concept is a little incomprehensible to our purpose-driven mind, which questions why one would act at all if one already has what is sought. You would understand this when you are free from the thought that you don't have it. Then you will see the joy that lies in acting even though you do not need the action. We do not know the charm of needlessness. When you do something needlessly and reasonlessly, there is a particular beauty about it, and that beauty is Yoga. To live without a reason, to love without a cause, and to act without greed and desire is Yoga.
