You are not Brahm, neither are you the Witness || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Question: So, we are not the doer. Right?

Acharya Prashant: We are. Always. That’s what needs to be seen. We are always doing and doing and doing.

Listener 1: Yes, but we shouldn’t do. We should observe. Right?

AP: That can not be a statement of an ideal, that cannot be the desire. You have to stop at saying, ‘I am the doer’. Kindly don’t go about saying, ‘I am the non-doer, I am the non-doer, the doer is somebody else’. You are the doer, are you not?

You are the doer even when you should not be doing. So, keep doing and keep noticing that you are the one who is doing. And when you have noticed deeply enough then you will be so sick of doing that you will step back. Never say, ‘I am the non-doer, I am the witness, I am *Brahm*‘ Are you? You penny pincher!

Look at the state of the world, look at the wars, look at the pettiness, you talked of the garbage (pointing at questioner), we are the ones responsible for this garbage. The world is all one, the same mind. And then, do we have the right to say, ‘I am the fourth one, I am the Atman’?