steals! And while stealing, if he repents for his intent and actions,
if he does pratikraman (to recall the hurt caused, repent for it
and resolve to not repeat it); he becomes free from it! In the
path of Akram Vignan, one becomes free from both bhaav
(intent) and abhaav (lack of intent) and becomes the Seer and
the Knower.
Every living being is flowing forward in the current of life.
No one is a doer here. The doer that appears to be the doer
is an evidentiary (nimit, instrumental) doer, not an independent
doer. If one were an independent doer, one would be in
permanent captivity (bondage). The evidentiary doer can never
be made captive. The world naturally goes on as a result of
forces of natural circumstances. Only the wrong belief, ‘I did it’,
arises in this! Because of this wrong belief of doership the seed
of karma for the next life is sown!
That is why renowned saint Akha Bhagat said:
‘Jo tu jiva toh karta hari; jo tu Shiva toh vastu khari.
If you are mortal then God is the doer; if you are Self-
realized then it is the right state.’
‘Karta mitey toh chhutey karma, ey chhe mahabhajan no
marma.
If doership leaves, karmas leave; that is the essence of the
highest quest.’
In the ignorant state (agnan, not Self-realized) the self
(atma; soul) is the doer of discharge karma, due to unavoidable
worldly interactions. The relative self is sachar (mobile); it is the
‘mechanical’ self, and the real Self is achar (still). The whole
world is trying to stabilize the relative self, which by nature is
unsteady, so how can it be stabilized? My Self is still and all the
rest is only the unsteady relative self and it is completely separate
from Me; only this much is to be known. After that the relative
self will remain as the relative self and the Self will remain as the
Self and both will remain separate!
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