Doership Quotes

Discover the best quotes about Doership. This collection showcases wisdom and insights on Doership from various authors and personalities.

If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, "I did five'- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, "it was due to God's grace that I was able to do five samayik'. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership.
To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
The Soul's doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
I did this so well'- one says this and tastes the sweetness of subtle pride of doership. One enjoys the sweetness of this subtle pride. There is pain [suffering] with projection of doer-ship. God is eternal bliss and that indeed is the nature of the Self!
Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.
A king will say 'I killed thousands of people'. He is simply doing egoism; he is taking pleasure in taking credit of doership (garva ras). They were killed by those who were on the battle field. Why does the king needlessly take on the liability [of new karmic causes]? In doing so, those who did the killing are set free. The rule is that the liability falls upon the one doing egosim [of doerhip].
The body is doing the action, body's spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, "I did'! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; "I did', "I suffered this pain', "I enjoyed that happiness'. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.