Doership

 

 

 

Doership

 

Sri Sri: : Krishna tells Arjuna, ‘‘Arjuna, you think you are not going to do what you are supposed to do? I tell you, you will do it. Even if you don’t want, you are going to do it!’’ In a very clever way He puts it: ‘‘Okay, you better surrender to me directly’’.

He says: ‘‘Drop everything. Surrender to me, and do what I say’’. Then He says: ‘‘Well, I have told you whatever I have to say, now you think it over and do what you like, you do whatever you want to do, do however you like’’. But then He said, ‘‘but remember, you will do only what I want’’.

These last few sentences of Krishna were so confusing, and people have struggled to make sense out of them. There are thousands of commentaries trying to make sense out of these few words, three contradicting statements. First He says, Surrender everything, I’ll do everything for you, or just do as I say. Then he says: Think, think and see what is right for you, do whatever you feel is right. And then in the third statement he says: But remember (anyway) you will do only what I want you to do.

All of our wanting to do, ‘doer ship’, is there to eliminate the tamas or inertia in you. Once inertia is eliminated, then you are in activity. When you are acting, you become a witness to the acting. Then you know you are not doing, things are happening through you. This is the final level of realization. You can see this in every action of yours. Have you noticed this? You are busy ‘doing’ when you accomplish something. In the beginning you think, ‘‘Oh! I have accomplished’’. But your accomplishment becomes more and more and more and as time goes by, you will fell, ‘‘No, it’s all happening. I did not do anything, I did not accomplish.’’

                                                      Jai Gurudev

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