104 Quotes About Doership

The one who has nothing left 'to do (karvapanu)', has nothing left 'to suffer' (bhogavvapanu). Karmic bondage is not due to the sufferer (bhokta), it is due to the doer (karta)!

The one experiencing the bitterness is in fact the doer. The doer is itself a vikalp (a false notion of 'I am this').

Where there is 'doing', the absolute Self (Parmatma) does not exist and where the absolute Self exists, there 'doing' does not.

No one is an independent doer of this world, but rather an instrumental doer. No 'wholesale' doer has ever been born. Even the Lord is not the doer of this world. If the Lord were to become the doer, then He would have to become the sufferer!

The 'pure' (shuddha) state is on the opposite shore to the 'auspicious-inauspicious' (shubha-ashubha)state. There is no 'sense of doership' (kartabhaav) there. If one realizes that, 'I am not the doer,' then he can become free.