Sutra:
228. svIkAranthAnum avanAlE vanthadhu.

Sri PBA Swami's Sarartha Deepikai:
How does one remove the thought that this is the means when logic appears to show that it is?

Once the chetana performs this surrender it is He who gives the chetana what he needs and removes what he does not need. Similarly, the great meaning here is that the attachment to this means which comes ahead, is also His doing.

That is, doing this is the act of the means, not the means itself.