"Whatever I do, good or bad, voluntary or involuntary,
"That is all made over to thee; I act as impelled by thee."
This self-resignation is also sometimes defined as "the surrender of the fruits of one's actions," and is thus a peculiar kind of faith, since most men act only with a selfish regard to the fruit. Thus it is sung in the Bhagavad Gítá [ii. 47]—
"Let thy sole concern be with action and never with the fruits;
"Be not attracted by the fruit of the action, nor be thou attached to inaction."
The harmfulness of aiming at the fruit of an action has been declared by the venerable Nílakaṇṭha-bháratí—
"Even a penance accomplished by great effort, but vitiated by desire,
"Produces only disgust in the Great Lord, like milk which has been licked by a dog."
Now this prescribed practice of mortification, recitation, and resignation is itself called yoga, because it is a means for producing yoga, this being an instance of the function of words called "superimponent pure Indication," as in the well-known example, "Butter is longevity." "Indication" is the establishing of another meaning of a word from the incompatibility of its principal meaning with the rest of the sentence, and from the connection of this new meaning with the former; it is twofold, as founded on notoriety or on a motive. This has been declared in the Kávya-prakáśa [ii. 9]—