The man who has realized the truth described above, whose works are all free from desires and from purposes (sankalpa) which cause those desires, who performs mere deeds without any immediate purpose,-- if he be engaged in worldly action, he does so with a view to set an example to the masses; if he has renounced worldly life, he performs deeds only for bodily maintenance,-- whose actions, good and bad, are consumed in the fire of wisdom which consists in the realization of inaction and vice versa: him the wise who know Brahman call a real sage (pandita).

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain

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• all
• undertakings/actions
• desire
• willful intention
• devoid of
• knowledge
• fire
• burned
• whose actions (accusative)
• him
• they call
• a wise/learned person
• the wise ones