Here is the portrait of the liberated-in-life. “Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go, grasping, opening and closing the eyes — he holds firmly that the senses move among the sense-objects, and that I do nothing at all.” Renouncing all actions by the mind, he dwells at ease as the sovereign in the “city of nine gates,” neither acting nor causing action. The Lord (the Self) takes on no one's sin or merit; it is the covering of ignorance that makes creatures deluded. This is the Avadhūta's inner stance: total activity outwardly, total non-doership inwardly. Note that the non-doing is not laziness — the body works fully — but the withdrawal of the false claim “I am the author.”