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Aptavani-5
‘you did that for me’. But I know that I am just a nimit in all
that. The one who becomes the doer binds karmas. Do you
become a doer of anything?
Questioner: From morning until night, I become the
doer.
The Belief, ‘I Am the Doer’, Is the Seed of
Next Life
Dadashri: Now, do you want to see the proof of
whether you truly are a doer or not?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: You say, ‘I have to go to sleep by ten and get
up at six in the morning.’ Then when you get into bed and pull
a blanket over your head, what do you start thinking about? All
of a sudden, you have a thought that you forgot to make a note
in your ledger of the five thousand rupees you loaned to
someone. Would you then be able to sleep? When sleeping is
not under your control, then what is? You even have to set an
alarm when you want to wake up early, do you not?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: That too is not under your control. Even going
to the toilet is not under your control. Nothing is under your
control. Everything happens naturally, but you ‘adjust’ to it by
saying, ‘I am doing it.’ Everything is operating due to some other
energy. Neither God nor you are the doer. The very belief, ‘I
am the doer’, is the seed of next life. Will you not have to
understand all this one day?
That is why Saint Akha said:
‘Karta mitey toh chhutey karma, ey chhe mahabhajan no
marma.
If doership leaves, karmas leave; that is the essence of the
highest quest.’