Acharya Prashant begins by reciting a couplet from Kabir Saheb: "Nothing happens by doing, everything happens by not doing. If anything happens by doing, the doer is someone else." He explains that Kabir is taking us deep into the concept of Karma (action). He poses the question, "Who says, 'I am doing'?" The answer is the ego. This is a point that has been discussed many times and may seem ordinary. The ego says, "I am doing." He then asks a deeper question: "Who says that anything is happening at all?" It's not about "I am doing," but about whether anything is happening in the first place. To realize that you are not the doer is one step. A step further is to question if anything is actually happening. He illustrates this with a Zen story about two disciples arguing over a fluttering flag. One says the flag is moving, while the other argues that the wind is moving, not the flag, as the flag is not the doer of its own motion. Their master resolves the dispute by stating, "Neither the flag is moving, nor the wind is moving. Your mind is moving." This analogy is used to question the reality of events. Is anything truly happening, or is it all a construct of the mind? He compares this to a dream where great deeds might be performed. Debating the doer of those dream-actions is secondary to questioning the reality of the dream itself. Kabir's point is to first show the action, and only then can the doer be discussed. The fundamental question is not about the doer, but about the very existence of the action. Who, other than you, claims that something is happening? We easily accept that the dualistic world is a creation of our senses. For instance, a wall exists for us because we can see and touch it. If these senses were to cease, we would not claim the wall's existence. Its being is entirely dependent on our senses creating it. If the wall itself is not real, how can the act of pushing or demolishing it be real? The question is not of the doer, but of the action itself. Understanding this clarifies the concepts of desireless action (Nishkam Karma), wrong action (Vikarma), and prohibited action (Nishiddha Karma) as mentioned by Shri Krishna in the Gita. We focus so much on the doer that we miss the fundamental question about the reality of the action. In the ultimate sense, nothing is happening. If one understands this, one can rest. The illusion of happening is also a part of the system's play. The feeling that "I am the doer" is also a creation of this system.