Life Is One

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

The One who takes care of all, is really the non-doer. Whom does illusion affect? Only one who holds on to it. She puts the individual in bondage by giving the food of sensory gratification. When the person who is accused admits his crime, only then is he proved guilty. Maya puts the jiva who admits his crime into bondage and subjects him to endless births. What crime is it that these fools admit? They admit their slavery to sense objects. What is this slavery? Even though one many have already enjoyed many pleasures, the desire to enjoy them again and again persists. The jiva thinks that the objects of the senses are real, and although he may have some understanding, he thinks that he will derive pleasure from the sense objects. 

Even though such people may have Knowledge, they worry and ask, "What more can I do? How can I behave now?" You harbor such useless doubts and become slaves to illusion. Actually, there is no question of how to behave, or what to do. Action and non-action are both irrelevant. When the whole life is One, why ask how to behave? That question is finished.