Krishna says that there is no option to act or not act because all activities are designed and maintained by Nature that has three spiritualconstituents - satva, rajo and tamo gunas. Satva guna represents light, happiness and wisdom, rajo guna represents all forms of activity and the causes for them such as attraction, repulsion, and jealousy. Tamo guna represents ignorance, lethargy and sleep. These three propel all activity.
Play of opposites
We normally work according to two forces - preference and prejudice, attraction and repulsion; love and hate, acceptance and rejection - and these are called dwandwas or play of opposites. The world is a collection of opposites; this includes physical things and mental ideas and concepts, intellectual assessments, man and woman, day and night, sin and virtue, today and tomorrow - all these are dwandwas. Krishna says the entire world being dwandwa-ridden, one should avoid the path of dwandwa and follow nirdwandwa, or transcend both good and bad, virtue and vice. According to the Bhagavad Gita (2:56), a man who is able to lead his intelligence on the lines of nirdwandwata, and transcend duality, will find virtue to be redundant and vices to be irrelevant. He will be able to neutralise, harmonise and oppose the effects of all karma. He will do so just as we learn swimming. You can learn to swim in deep waters only. The drowning power of water is not removed, but by holding your head above and flapping your hands and feet, you remain afloat - neutralising and harmonising the so-called drowning power of water.
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Just to add one thing here that during above course of time, one has to be calm too.
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