Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Doership and Enjoyership are in Nature Only, Not in Self

 

In the Gangaji (holy river) one person drowns and dies, then Gangaji

does not incur sin for the drowning, and another one is immersing in the holy

water and bathing, but Gangaji does not accrue virtues for the bathing. Gangaji

neither has the sentiments of egoism (doership) nor the taintedness of intellect

(in terms of experiencing / enjoying).

 

Doership (kartaah) and enjoyership (Bhoktaah) are in Nature (Prakriti), not in

the Self. Therefore an enlightened, exalted soul, remaining established in the

Self holds " I do nothing " - " naiva kinchitkaromeeti yuktoh manyate tattvavit, "

(Gita 5/8). All the worldly activities such as eating, drinking, sleeping, doing

job, service, business etc., as well as. all the spiritual activities such as

listening to Vendantic texts (shravana), cognition (manana)and assimilation

(nididdhyaasan) etc., are taking place in Nature (Prakriti) only. In the Self no

action, none whatsoever, is ever possible. Therefore an aspirant (sadhak) should

not physically and externally renounce the worldly activities sanctioned by the

scriptures as well as, spiritual activities, but in them, he should not regard

that the activities are happening by him and that these activities are being

performed for himself. Attaching importance to activities, is in essence

attaching importance to the insentient (inert). If an aspirant attaches

importance to actions, then in spite of engaging in spiritual discipline for

years, obvious progress and benefit is not perceived in him. Therefore in a

sadhak's inner being (antahkaran) there should be importance attached to only

the sentient (chetan) side, rather than the insentient (jad, inert) side. A

sadhak is not the body, while an action is performed through the body alone. The

nature of the Self (sadhak) is Divinity (chinmay), Existence (sattaa), and in

all of Existence, there is no actions that are taking place. The nature of the

world is actions and objects.

 

Doership and enjoyership are not in us (Self), but because of ignorance they

have been assumed to be in us (Self). In spite of believing and assuming this,

in essence we are free from doership and enjoyership - " Sharirasthopi Kaunteya

na karoti ne lipyate. " The point is that in spite of assuming that we (Self) are

established in the body, in fact, we are detached from the body. In spite of the

believing that we are in bondage, really we are liberated. It is extremely

essential for an aspirant (sadhak) to accept this TRUTH.