Was listening to Swami Sarvapriyananda explaining what was Shankaracharya's wonderful elucidation of the Bhagavad Gita's verse which goes "One who can see action in inaction, and inaction in action, is enlightened"
Shankaracharya used the example of a person sitting on moving boat and watching the bank of the river.
He sees the trees passing behind well knowing that the trees are not the one in motion (inaction in action).
He knows that he is seated in one place but witnessing this motion (action in inaction).
His action in witnessing the event is what is leading to the perception of the moving trees. The two actions are thus even dependant and related.
There is no way that the consciousness lights something that isn't at least existing for the consciousness to witness.
This very consciousness is actually the one projecting the objects witnessed. Objects which are constantly in action, objects which really are nothing more than a lighting/projection in consciousness, that would cease to act and exist when the consciousness does not light them up, as in sleep. So all this action really doesn't happen without the consciousness that lights it up, that projects/creates it as in a dream.
There really is thus no action happening from the perspective of the illuminating consciousness!
However this lighting up, this illuminating what exists around us, is the only action there is while one does not realise it. Being the product of its very own power Maya, the fact that objects around us are illuminated, is the only action that happens while it's not directly clear, as the senses focus on the actions of the objects around.
This apparent doing nothing is verily the only action there is, which makes all the apparent actions that we experience with objects around us.
This is how there is action in only the witnessing / illuminating / projecting of the sensory world via the power of Maya. This apparent inaction is the only action that actually happens!
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