"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

You Are A Non-Doer

Sage Vasishtha

You are not the doer of any action here, O Rama; so why do you assume doership? When one alone exists, who does what and how? Do not become inactive, either; for what is gained by doing nothing? What has to be done has to be done. Therefore, rest in the self. Even while doing all the actions natural to you, if you are unattached to those actions, you are truly the non-doer; if you are doing nothing and are attached to that non-doership (then you are 'doing' nothing) you become the doer! When all this world is like a juggler's trick, what is to be given up and what is to be sought?

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