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🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺
🌿Chapter - 4🌿
~ You Are Not The Doer ~
🌱 Day - 21 🌱
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मुक्त एवासि सर्वदा - you are free. You're the infinite space. The craving to be free is itself another bondage. This is what Ashtavakra said, 'You are free, my dear'. He gave an example of how 'I am the doer' comes out. It's like a dark serpent has bitten you. When it bites, the poison goes all over the body. Similarly, you have very strongly felt this concept is being the doer, of being somebody, in every cell of your being. This had gone so deep in you. Now trust my words : 'you are not the doer'. Life is 'happening' on this planet. Everything is moving. Your mind is going through ups and downs, sorrows and joys. It has its own ways, its own time. There is nobody on this planet who can say they have always been unhappy. It's impossible! But when you are unhappy, you feel that you are always so. When you have a problem, you feel that you always have a problem. You seem to extend it to infinity. You may feel that you are always unsuccessful. How can you always be unsuccessful? If you were always unsuccessful, you would never feel it. In fact, you couldn't 'be' without being unsuccessful, because unsuccessful would become part of your nature. You would not even know it! You know you are unhappy because you were happy at other times. There are some moments you were happy, some moments you were free. Now, recollect and remember those moments you were free. In fact, they are much more than moments of your unhappiness. Those moments, those glimpses, are sufficient to make you know that you are free. You may feel that you always have thoughts. But for sure, you only know you have thoughts the moment you experienced having no thoughts.
नाहं कर्तेति विश्वासामृतं पीत्वा सुखी भव
There is only one way you can be happy - seeing that you are not the doer; that everything is just happening. Let it happen. Thinking you are the doer agitated you further, and you become much more restless. Not to do, to undo,is another thing. The desire to do something and get out of it is another 'doing'. It's something like a pond being muddy. You know this, but then start stirring it more. And if you keep stirring,it is bound to become muddier. There's no way it can settle down.
नाहं कर्तेति विश्वासामृतं पीत्वा सुखी भव When you can feel 'I am not the doer,' when this confidence, this faith dawns on you, that is nectar. With that, you will become happy.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
ASHTAVAKRA GITA
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