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Aptavani-8
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Questioner: Is the living being itself the doer?
Dadashri: Its awareness is that, “I am the doer, I am the sufferer. It is soul (jiva) that desires to live, and that does not desire to die. The Atma is the non-doer and the non-sufferer.
Did you understand the self and the Self (jiva-Shiva) difference? When Does the Contradictory Worldly Life End? That is why it has been said:
"Jo tu Jiva toh karta Hari;
Jo tu Shiva, toh vastu khari” “If you are a living being (jiva), then God (Hari) is the doer. If you are Atma (Shiva); then that is the real thing."
If you become the Shiva, then there is nothing else left; there is no one superior to you (upari). As long as you are a living being (jiva) however, you like all the worldly (bhautik) pleasures and you like all your relatives. 'Here comes my daughter's father-in-law.’Even when his daughter's father-inlaw comes, he loses himself. Whatever one becomes lost in; that is what one becomes. When the daughter's father-in-law comes, he even gets lost in the daughter's father-in-law. That is what our people are like!
Then it says:
"karta meetey toh chhootey karma;
aey chhey mahabhajan no marma” “One becomes free from the bondage of karma when the doer is gone – this is the essence of the ultimate devotional offering of liberation.”
What is the essence of the mahabhajan? If you do not become free of karma, then karma is subject to doer, the doer is subject to karma; karma is subject to doer; doer is subject
