104 Quotes About Doership

One can never become a tarantaaran (one who is liberated and can liberate others) as long as he believes, 'I am doing', 'He is doing', 'They are doing'.

In this world, there is effort for those who are 'doers' and for those who are 'non-doers', there is splendour!

The doer is someone else, yet to say, 'I am doing it,' is a false attribution; due to which one earns the next life. If one were to understand, 'Who is the doer' then the next life would cease to happen. The false attribution itself is the seed for the next life.

Where 'I' (the ego) exists, there all forms of worldly life exist. It is this very 'I' that gets married, this very 'I' that abides by it and it is the very one that becomes widowed! It is the very one that becomes a renunciate and it is the very one that becomes a householder. It is that very 'I' (ego) that is all this. Once that 'I' (ego) leaves, then salvation is attained.

If you believe God (Ishwar) to be the doer, then why do you believe yourself to be doer?

It is only the human being who possesses the awareness that 'I am the doer' and wherever he becomes the doer, there the dependence (upon God) is broken. To such a person God says, "Hey, if you are going to do it, then you are free and I am free." Then what do you and God have to do with one another?

In this world, who cannot get work done? The one who is the doer (karta).

When circumstance comes together, one says, "I did it." And what about when the cirumstances do not come together?!

The awareness as the doer has not gone, that is why the awareness as the sufferer prevails. That is why the kashays (anger-price-deceit-greed) persist. Once the awareness as the doer is dispelled, the awareness as the sufferer ceases to exist, then the kashays go away.