When man has removed all worldly desires from his heart and God has entered within, then he performs his part in the stage of the world like an actor. An actor is never attached to his part. In all the desires–the profits and losses–that he sees in the drama, he knows that his real self is left untouched. He knows that everything that he is doing on the stage is in accordance with the part allotted to him by the Director, and he plays his part to the best of his ability to please the Director, without becoming attached to the play on the stage.
The desires that propel him to action are in fact non-existent within him. He is enacting a part written by the Director. If a loved one dies on the stage, he sheds tears, but he is not affected at heart, because he knows that it is only a part of the play. If he is re-united with his beloved he is shown in a state of bliss, but he knows that all this is merely a part he is supposed to play. If he desires a kingdom or wealth he knows that it is only a part of the play, and the kingdom or wealth do not exist in reality. He does not in truth desire them; he desires them only as part of the play. Thus he performs all his actions in a detached manner–but he performs them to perfection to please the Director who has written the part for him.
And when the curtain falls, the actor knows that it is only his stage personality that has gone from the stage, his real personality continues to exist behind the screen.
And if the audience cries, Once more! he is ever ready to appear before them again!
Thus when a man removes all desires from his heart, God enters within him and writes out the part he is to play in life. Whatever man does thereafter is in accordance with the part that God has written for him and which God directs Himself.
In the example above, Shri Nathji defined with exactness the role of a Brahmagyaani – one who is said to have God within him all the time. He is then totally unattached to the world around him, and yet plays his role in the world with perfection allowing his thoughts, words and actions to be dictated by the Will of God.