Doership and Enjoyership are merely assumed - Swami Raksukhdasji Maharaj

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Now let us reflect on this - Who is an enjoyer ? The enjoyer is

neither real or unreal. The real cannot be an enjoyer, because the

real lacks nothing - " nabhaavo vidyate satah, " while the enjoyership

come to an end - " na lipyate " . The unreal also cannot be an enjoyer,

because the unreal has no existence - " nasato vidyate bhaavah. " In

the unreal there is no consciousness. Therefore in the unreal there

can't be even the imagination of enjoyership. It means that doership

and enjoyership are neither in the real, nor in the unreal.

 

In the union of the real and unreal also there is neither doership,

nor enjoyership; because as the union of the day and night is

impossible, so is the union of the real and the unreal impossible.

Therefore doership and enjoyership are merely assumed - " kartaahamiti

manyate " (Gita 3:27). i.e. When a spiritual aspirant discriminately

totally renounces attachment to the body i.e wipes out sense of " I "

and mine " (which actually does not exist), then he remains neither a

doer, nor an enjoyer, but only the divine entity remains. In this way

a spiritual aspirant having realized the absence of doership and

enjoyership in Him, is liberated. i.e. he does not remain a doer or

an enjoyer (experiencer) but remains the Pure Self (Divine Entity).

 

The question arises is that how is the Self dwelling in the body, not

tainted. Lord explains this that " As the all-pervading ether is not

tainted due to being subtle, so the Self (atma) permeated everywhere

in the body, is not tained.

 

A man performs actions to receive its fruit. So, first he thinks of

the reward, and then performs actions. Thus the Lord asks a spiritual

aspirant to not be an enjoyer. By renouncing the fruit of action,

doership is automatically renounced.

 

Lord also says that just as ether pervades all gross elements and is

not tained, similarly Self pervading all bodies is not tainted,

because it is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant, everlasting,

unmanifest, unthinkabble, and immutable (Gita 2:24, 25) and the

entire Universe is pervaded by the imperishable Self (Gita 2:17).