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कर्ताभाव क्या है? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2014)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Doership
Leela
Divine Play
Illusion
Non-duality
Existence
Nature
Consciousness
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the misconception that if one is not the doer, then everything must be predetermined by another entity like God. He explains that the sense of doership is an illusion and that the universe operates as a vast, spontaneous system. When we imagine ourselves as doers, we create a division between the actor, the action, and the object. However, in the ultimate reality, these distinctions do not exist; the source is simultaneously the cause, the action, and the result. He describes this cosmic functioning not as a planned management or engineering project, but as 'Leela'—a purposeless, joyful play or dance. He critiques the human tendency to project our own egoic traits, such as planning, ambition, and the need for results, onto the Divine.