What do we call ego? The ego is the belief,“ I am that,” when truly one is not that. When the Self is identified wrongly, it is ego. It is ego when one believes,“ I am Chandubhai,”, because here one identifies himself with his name and body.“ I am this body, I am her husband.” In reality, one is the Pure Soul, but he is not aware of this real identity. Because the person does not have this awareness, he identifies himself as‘ I am Chandulal’ and‘ I am this body.’ This belief is ignorance and it is because of this ignorance that karmas are bound.
If you renounce the identification with the body, then you are not the doer of karmas and neither are you the enjoyer or sufferer of these karmas. That is the ultimate essence of dharma.
~ Shrimad Rajchandra
If you are an embodied soul, or jiva then Lord Hari is the doer. If you are Shiva, the primordial Soul, then that is the true essence( meaning you are not the doer). ~ Akha Bhagat.
When one identifies with,“ I am Chandulal,” it is called‘ jiva dasha’( embodied soul). When one becomes aware of the Gnan that,“ I am not Chandulal, but I am Shuddha Atma( Pure Soul) in reality,” that is called‘ Shiva pada’. One is Shiva. The Atma is parmatma, whose natural state is devoid of all mundane actions. The Atma by nature has no doership. It is the Gnani who is constantly aware of,“ I am the Self,” and“ I am not the doer of anything,” and therefore he does not bind new karmas. The old discharge karmas mature, give fruit, and are exhausted.
The seeds of karmas are sown in the past life and give their fruits in this life. Who gives the fruits of these karmas? God? No. It is given by nature, or what is called‘ Scientific Circumstantial Evidences’( Vyavasthit Shakti), by Param Pujya Shree Dadashri. It is due to ignorance that, while experiencing the karmas, raag-dwesh( likes-dislikes) is created, which in turn creates new seeds of karma that mature in the next life and
have to be suffered. Gnanis prevent one from creating new 11