Who Am I

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Who Am I?
Who Am I?
karma, you will be free. Without Gnan however, one cannot stop creating new karma. *DOERSHIP = PRAKRUTI: 'NON
DOERSHIP'= ATMA All the human beings in this world are "T-O-P-S'. What is a top? It is a toy that spins on its tip, when the string wound around it, is pulled. The top will spin around until all its energy is dissipated. In this example the winding of the string is the bhaav purushaarth (cause) and the spinning is prarabdh (effect, result). It is prakruti (inherent characteristics) that makes a person do things, but he says, “I am doing it". He is in essence, just like a puppet on a string. Prakruti makes him do penance, ritualized chanting of mantras, and meditation etc., but he believes that he is the one doing it.
Questioner: Tell us about prakruti, Dada.
Dadashri: The moment you claim to be the 'doer' (karta). prakruti comes into existence. As Atma you are the 'non-doer (akarta). You have the wrong belief that I am Chandulal', and that I am the doer'. The moment you say this, you become bound. It is because of this wrong belief, that prakruti comes into existence. As long as there is ignorance of the Real 'T', one feels that one is the 'doer and one is therefore bound by one's prakruti. When the awareness of 'I am not the doer' is acquired and one ceases to be the 'doer', the prakruti no longer remains. From that moment onwards one does not bind any new karma, but past karma remain and these have to be discharged. KARTA (DOERSHIP) AND NAIMITTIC
(INSTRUMENTAL) DOERSHIP Questioner: If one is not the 'doer', then who is? What
is the nature of the 'doer'?
Dadashri: One's 'doership is only 'instrumental' (naimittic karta) in any process. One is not an independent doer' of anything.
This 'instrumental doership can be further defined as a parliamentary process where the final decision is based on collective votes and where each individual has only one vote. Thus your vote is one of many in the final outcome. But you believe that I am doing this' so you become the 'doer'.
The planning' (through bhaav purushaarth) occurs in this way: You yourself are the 'planner' and this planning is the final signature (endorsement); the 'doership is only in the
planning stage, but this fact is unknown to the whole world. In other words, all that materializes in front of us, in this life, is a result of planning in the past life through bhaav (deep inner intent). The only place for doership is in this bhaav.
The output of this small 'computer' (Chandulal), then becomes the input into the giant 'computer' of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence. In this manner, the planning (bhaav purushaarth) is fed into the giant computer. The giant computer then gives forth the effects of this planning'. All the events in one's life are an effect. The discharge in the present life is the result of causes created in the past life. Nothing in this life is under one's control. It is under the control of 'other hands'. Once the planning' is done, it is then out of the hands of the *planner and falls under the control of 'other hands'. These *other hands' (Scientific Circumstantial Evidence), play a part in bringing forth the effects. So the effects may be different from the planning. The unfolding of the effects is entirely in 'other hands'. This is a very subtle point. Do you understand this?