Questioner: I believe a lot in execution. I keep saying sometimes when IтАЩm in private that IтАЩm a doer; I do things.
Acharya Prashant: Yes.
Questioner: And I believe that I am dedicated to God. I believe that I try a lot of things, but you know some things happen, not all. So, there is a higher power towards whatever God so clearly you know. So, when you say doing is bondage, doer ship is bondage; that got me thinking.
Acharya Prashant: Yeah, thatтАЩs because the doer himself is often a product of bondage, the doer to be, more direct and accurate, is bondage personified. Often, thatтАЩs the case, and well, thatтАЩs the case then, everything that comes out of the doer only serves to reinforce the bondage. Who is the doer? ThatтАЩs the question we need to go into. If the doer is a product of biological and social conditioning then the doer is just an agent of the forces that seek to keep the doer himself in Fetters, and now the doer might be acting vigorously, but thatтАЩs only to carry out the commands of its masters.
When we are born, we are already carrying a lot of tendencies within us that clutch us, make us do their bidding, that makes us feel as if our very identity is linked to them, those tendencies and then, as we progress through life, move through life, there is a lot of social input by way of influences, by way of education, and such things. And there, again there is a lot of identification; we become what we absorb. Though, thatтАЩs not what we truly are. And when we become what we absorb, then most of what we do goes against our real interests.
