Ego of Doer ship

Main cause of bondage of Self Soul in material body is the identification with mind body orgasm which is transient. Material body is changing every moment. without realizing this we become old and even after doing every thing to avoid this body dies.If we know that this body is different from what we are, fear pof death dissipates. Self Soul is eternal.It has no link with material nature. It is eternal servotor of Lord Krishna.Bot when it identifies with material nature Lord Krishna sends it in various bodies to cleanse its sin of identification as a loving mother applies soap clean a dirty child.


The Self Soul is not the doer.

It is the mind with which self soul identifies and assumes doer ship of those acts which are result of previous identification done in many embodiments.
Self Soul assumes doer ship through mind. Material nature reflects itself in form of reactions, dualities.
Lord Krishna says

Then how these actions come into existence?

Lord Krishna elaborated the process in chapter 18 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:


Panchetani mahabaho karnarhi nibodh me I

Sankhey kritante proktani sidhiye sarkamrhanam II


Adhishthanam tatha karta karrham ch prithakvadham I

Vivdha prithakcheshtha devam chevatra panchamam II


Sharirvangmanobhiryatkaram prarabhte narah I

Nayayam va vipreetam pachete tasya hetvah II



Tatraivm sati kartaram atmanam kevalam tu yah II

Pashayatiakritbudhitwatna sa pashayati durmati II (18.13-16)


Arjun! In the Sankhya branch of learning which give out the ways to neutralize the actions, these five factors have been mentioned as contributory to the accomplishment of all actions, know them from me.

Seat of action and the agent, organs of different kinds and separate divergent movements and fifth is destiny.


Whatever actions, right or wrong performed from mind, speech and body, their causes are these five.

Not withstanding this, he who having impure mind, considers the Self alone the doer, is a person of perverse understanding and does not know the truth.

Self is not the doer. he who considers the self alone, is doer is ignorant and is deprived of the real knowledge.
Whatever is performed from the mind, body, and speech, it is due to five factors.
Co-existence of all of them is a must for execution of any act. Even if, one factor is missing, the action may not come up.
These factors are:-

1. An embodiment.

2. Doer

3. Means.

4. Different acts of the means.

5. Destiny.

When the self in collusion with nature by way of attachment has considered itself the doer, all this universe has come into existence and continues to be in existence despite the fact that a large number of human beings and other creatures die.

But the creator self is witnessing all this play of his dispassionately. There are three aspect of a particular situation. Preceptor, percept and percepting, the two latter are not separate. It is one self soul in all three aspects

Destiny is the powerful of all these.

One should try to understand the chemistry of the self.

There was nothing other than the self. It wanted to play with someone. Since there was none else so the self transformed itself into many.

But how this happened?

Three fold nature of invincible self, consisting of three modes goodness, passion and ignorance. The lord created this material nature. He also transformed himself in spiritual nature in form of free self soul. They were allowed to play game of freedom. Self soul started play with material nature. It was so engrossed in it that it forgot its identification. Once attached to material nature and its evolutes, the self soul created this unthinkable universe.
Human beings out of their ‘ego’ are making searches and researches of how this came into existence, forgetting their real aim of self realization.
By indescribable power of Lord in form of three modes, the universe exists, vanishes and still coming into being. All the workmanship of doer, doing and done rests in the nature in form of three modes of passion, goodness and ignorance.
Self is neither doer of any action nor receiver of its fruit.
How the self, the sustainer of all can be doer?
It is the ‘jeeva’ the individual self who has done an act of attachment only by outer identification with these acts of nature and thereby binding itself.
It is the mindset which is too rectified. Salvation exists right now, just before you, it is to be felt.

But for ignorance, the blissful self is free.
As one dips into a pond of dirt and on coming out of it, it goes on identifying with new set up; this is the condition of self soul. Once entangled with material nature, it does not desire to come out of it.

A bombshell explanation is coming in next verse:



Yasya na ahankrito bhavo budhi yasya na lipyate I

Hatva sa iman lokan nah anti na nibadhyate II (18.17)


He who has no ‘ego’ of the doer and whose has lost desire by application of wisdom, if he happens to kill this entire universe, is not the slayer nor prone to bondage.


Whose mind is free from ego and sense of doer ship, whose reason is not tainted by worldly objects and activities?
He sees the ‘self’ and ‘self’ alone. His act of even killing does not bind him. A soldier killing enemy is not tried for murder. Rather he is decorated. He does not kill enemy for himself. He kills them to save the honor of country and save country men. He acts self lessly. His emoluments are of no consideration in comparison to act of his velour.

Through this example, it is clarified that when one has no ’ego‘ and attachment to a particular act being done in pursuance to one’s nature by its modification e.g. body, even if killing the entire world, such self soul is always sinless and free from bondage.
Action of realized self doesn’t bear fruit.

Possessed with wisdom and realization, and one’s mind satisfied with the realization of self, one shuns ego, his acts merge in the acts of all pervading supreme ‘self’


Na hi dehbhrita shakyum tyaktum karmarhi asheshtah I

Yastu karamfaltyagi sa tyagietiabhdhiyate II (11).



A creature having embodiment cannot, even for a moment leave action in entirety, but he who renounces the fruit of the action/s is the man of renunciation.

Not only human being indulges in action but all the creatures are active all the time. Body itself is the result of attachment with three modes of nature. Actions are bound to come naturally. You have no control over them.
you never desire defamation but it comes, you don’t desire discomfort but it comes, you don’t desire death , but it comes at appointed time, you don’t desire loss but it comes, you don’t desire enemy, but it comes, none desires earth quake, but it comes, like wise all miseries come uninvited. Even one may have to leave this world without even a moment notice.

A flying plane crashes, who desires it? Every embodiment has to act as per dictation of its past deeds; they are not your actions, why to desire fruit from them. You have to get rid of this sin of identification with action and desire for fruit from them.

This is liberation.

You can achieve it just now.

Sit at a little distance from mind. Watch it playing!

Lord Krishna says in chapter 14:


Naanyam gurhebhay kartaram dsrshtha anupashayati I

Garhebhyashch paramveti madbhavam soadhigachhati II


Gurhanetanatitya treendehi dehsamudbhwan I

janammrityujaradukheiervimuktoamritamashnute II.( 14.19-20)



When the seer perceives no cause other than these qualities and realizes ME, the Supreme spirit, not affected by these qualities and entirely beyond them, he enters into my being


Having overcome these three qualities which have caused the embodiment, and freed from birth, death, old age and all kind of sorrows, the soul attains the eternal bliss even while in this very body.

The world is the modification of three evolutes of material nature. it is not the particular body which is result of such modification but all thing, places, fruits, time, knowledge, work, agents, faith, state, forms and goals whatever is visible or invisible, all are within the range of these qualities of material nature (gunas), goodness, passion and ignorance
Having obtained the human form, the soul in present embodiment, is conducive to knowledge and realization. Once ignited, torches of wisdom, vanishes not.

It should shun attachment to every thing except Self/God / One’s own self/or whatever one believes in to be his creator and strive for it alone.

Such a man frees from the bondage of subtle body and evolutes (gunas).

Relation with evolutes springs up in mind and these are executed through it.

Self soul is wholly filled with ‘bliss’.

Freed by steadfastness in knowledge, from the subtle body, which consists of three evolutes, and brings limitation to individual embodied soul, a man not attached to sense-objects.

The sense- world which is illusory is unsubstantial in appearance, transient, full of misery and discontentment.

This is material world in other terms.

The embodiment is not confined to present formation but one soul coming in contact with the nature has been taking from one body to another. The process will go on till self realization.


Because the individual soul having attained an embodiment cannot remain without an act even for a moment. But the person, who is detached to the fruits of actions, is the man of renunciation.

It is only the ego factor which binds the individual to the cycle of birth and death.

Action, motion, utterance, rejection, taking, enjoyment, touching, sight, taste, hearing, smelling, sleeping, awakening, moving sitting and any other act, a body can do or imagine to do, are because of the presence of soul inside the body.

So they are act of the Lord, due to Lord, for the Lord, by the Lord and have no correlation with embodiment.
Individual soul is the image of Lord Krishna himself.
but his own developed ‘ego’ caused by its identification and assumed relation with the nature are interwoven in such a way, that the soul not recognizing its real self, adopts modification as its self and is caught in net of his own creation.

Renunciation is not to come from outside, rather one has to change the attitude. ‘transforming it from the doer to only as a witness’ which fact already exists, has been existing, has always existed, and shall always exist but the self soul itself has caused this self inflicted misery.


Anishtamishtam misharam ch trividham karmarha falam I


bhavtiatyaginam pretya na tu sannyasina kavchit II (12)


Pleasant, unpleasant and mixed, three fold fruit of the action or actions is bound to follow for them who wish to have fruits of their body’ action and have not yet renounced the desire for fruit but those who have renounced this desire, the actions don’t bring any fruit.


Every act of an individual is based on desire of its fruit.
Action is taking place knowingly or unknowingly.
But the action done without attachment and desire are not to bear fruit like the burnt seeds when sown even in a very fertile land, do not sprout and raise any crop.

So the deeds of person of renunciation do not give any dividend but the deeds done with attachment, do give mixed, pleasant and unpleasant results, which a soul in embodiment appears to undergo.

What a curse?

Mere identification with mind body orgasm has imprisoned eternal self soul.
So the selfless deeds for the benefit of others and consciously devoted to the Lord of all, become acts of Lord and emancipate the soul