And how to understand Him as non-doer while performing all actions? This is the answer to that question. Shriji Maharaj is not a non-doer in the sense of 'Rama does not go, nor does He stand.' He resides in Akshardham with such divine majesty, attendants, and powers. I neither beat nor teach, so I became a non-doer. I neither beat nor teach, so that's good, right? 'Mehto' means teacher. What should we call it in today's language? What is the meaning of 'Mehto'? Servant of servants. Huh? Teacher, teacher. 'Mehto' means teacher. So, the teacher neither beats nor teaches. So, is he considered very good or not? Why? Of no use. So, did he become a non-doer? In this, 'Rama does not go, nor does He stand' means like a teacher who neither beats nor teaches, hence a non-doer. He does nothing. Why did this stop? And how to understand Him as non-doer while performing all actions? This is the answer to that question. Shriji Maharaj is not a non-doer in the sense of 'Rama does not go, nor does He stand.' Just as He resides in Akshardham with divine majesty, attendants, and powers, He behaves in the same way in human form. And being such, He is beyond Akshar Akshar 1) Imperishable. In his personal form, Akshar serves Bhagvãn in Akshardhãm, and takes birth on earth as His ideal bhakta (sat-purush). Both forms are human in appearance. In his impersonal form, Akshar is the dhãm of Bhagvãn called Akshardhãm. In his all- pervading anvay form, Akshar is called Chidãkãsh. Tap to open in glossary → Moreover, just as someone performs a ritual sacrifice for a specific desire and worships the deity in it, does he do it for the deity or for the happiness of heaven? He does it only for the happiness of heaven. Offering ghee ghee This is clarified butter or pure butter that is formed by heating it until the impurities in it settle to the bottom. Tap to open in glossary → ghee ghee This is clarified butter or pure butter that is formed by heating it until the impurities in it settle to the bottom. Tap to open in glossary → What does that mean? That non-doership also comes. He does not do it for himself, but does it for God and God's devotee. If he does it, then doership is said to have come. Doing something for God is itself called doership. How does non-doership come, as was asked? He does not do it for his own selfish interest. So, non-doership never comes. Action is never abandoned. That is mentioned in the Gita, right? "No one can remain without performing action even for a moment. Everyone is helplessly driven to action by the qualities born of nature." No man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → Reduce doership. Reduce it and make it zero. Reduce doership and make it zero. What does that mean? Do nothing. Those who engage in very long and large worldly affairs should stop them. Then keep reducing them gradually, keep them minimal. Maharaj said that if the inclination is as far as Kashi, then bring it to the size of Ahmedabad, then to Vartal. From there, bring it to Gadhada, then to the senses, then to the jiva, and dissolve it there. Maharaj gave that example in a different context. But doership, the Sankhya followers say to reduce doership. They believe that everyone has a desire to perform actions. So, they believe that there are two types of desires: the desire for doership and the desire for enjoyment. So, if one reduces doership, enjoyment is also reduced. If one reduces doership, these are the two functions of the jiva: enjoyment and doership. So, if doership is reduced, enjoyment is automatically reduced, so say the Sankhya followers. And Maharaj has accepted that technique to become free of desires, but not as a principle of life. He made yoga the principle of life. Yoga, but not Patanjali Yoga, the Yoga of the Gita. In the Gita, it is written, 'Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita, the science of the Eternal, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna Krishna 1) An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a cowherd. This is considered to be a greater avatãr than the others, as Shree Krishna possessed all of the powers of Bhagvãn, whereas other avatãrs possessed less power. Shree Krishna conveyed the message of love and humanity to the world. Also, He recited the epic poem, the Bhagvad Geetã, to Arjun in which He stated: ‘Whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, I shall incarnate myself as a human to save the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, and to establish dharma. I come into being from yug to yug’. 2) In the Vachanãmrut, Shreeji Mahãrãj also uses the name “Shree Krishna” to describe Bhagvãn Purushottam Nãrãyan. Tap to open in glossary → So, in the Gita, God said, 'No one can remain without performing action even for a moment.' So, what is the Yoga of the Gita? What is non-doership from the perspective of the Gita? It is not having the desire for enjoyment. The Gita says to reduce enjoyment, not to reduce doership. Perform doership for God. Then, on the contrary, it becomes very good. In that eighteenth chapter, it is said, 'Indeed, it is not possible for an embodied being to renounce actions entirely.' Having taken a body, the Sankhya followers say to reduce doership, reduce doership. But 'it is not possible for an embodied being to renounce actions entirely.' Therefore, what should be done? Renounce the fruits of action. If one renounces the fruits, what is the meaning of non-doer? What is the meaning of non-doership? No attachment to the fruits. Mukund Swami, tell me, what does it mean to attain non-doership? To renounce the fruits, meaning to perform actions for God, for God's devotee. Non-doership means not having to experience the fruits of action. Why do we all experience the fruits we experience? We have done something in the past, and we are experiencing the fruits of what we did. So, the essence of non-doership is that one does not have to experience the fruits. And in this, it is said, 'non-doer while being a doer,' so even if one performs actions, what is the way by which one does not have to experience the fruits? The Gita calls that non-doership. One performs work and does not have to experience its fruits. So, finding such a way to attain non-doership is what God said in the Gita. The Sankhya followers say to reduce doership, but it is simply not possible. Even when sleeping, one performs action. Sleeping is an action, isn't it? We say, 'He got tired of sleeping.' If a sick person is on bed rest, he gets tired of sleeping. One gets tired only if one performs some action, otherwise how would one get tired? So, sleeping is an action, and a person gets tired of sleeping. Many brave ones do not get tired, they can sleep a lot all day. But mostly, people get tired of sleeping. So, God said, in the Gita it is said, that from the perspective of Yoga, there is no need to renounce doership. Renounce the desire for enjoyment. 'I have no desire for any kind of objects of enjoyment.' And if one performs actions to please God, then he does not have to experience those fruits. There is a verse in the Gita somewhere like 'tyaktva karmani kurvanti' by attributing actions, right? So, by attributing the fruits to God, no matter how many actions one performs, Maharaj has said to apply force. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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