Aptavani-9
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Krupadudev, he attained right vision (samkit) and he sang,
‘Mityon udayakarma no garva re (The sense of doer-ship in
the fruition of karma is gone)’. The whole world is in garva
(doer-ship) of fruition of the karma. There is no exception to
that. This is because as long as one has not attained the Self,
he is verily elsewhere (in the non-Self), and therefore garva
(doer-ship) remains.
Why did egoism creep in, in the first place? It is because
of ignorance. Ignorance of what? Ignorance about who the doer
is in all this. That is why Narsinh Mehta said:
‘Hoon Karoo, hoon Karoo eyj agnanta,
Shakata no bhaar jeym shwan taaney,
Shrushti mandaan chhe sarva eni perey,
Jogi Jogeshwara kok jaaney!’
‘I am the doer, I am the doer, is verily the ignorance,
It is like the dog believing, ‘I am pulling the cart
(which the bullocks are pulling),
Everything in the universe goes on, on its own,
This is known by the rare yogi or the fully enlightened
One’
Is Narsinh Mehta saying anything wrong? Many people
claim, ‘I did this, I did swadhyaya – religious study, I did
penance, I did chants etc.’ so what is the truth? ‘I am the doer.
I am the doer’ is ignorance so how can man proceed further?
And what is garva? It is when one takes credit of doing
something, when in fact he is not the doer of anything. He does
not do anything, things just happen. But what do people claim
instead?
Questioner: ‘I did it.’
Dadashri: That is called garva.