'Doership' is a Spiritual Disease

3 years ago By Yogi Anoop

'Doership' is a Spiritual Disease

I started working on a group of 50 people who came from the business class. All of them were between 50 and 55 years old. Although all of them were indeed ignorant of my experiments, in the course of working on their nature with great spiritual depth, all except 2 were inflicted with a great sense of “doership”.

Almost the same symptoms were found in all of them, they described their biggest sorrow as, "I did a lot for people but nobody did anything for me". Some said, "I did everything for myself and others' children but they did nothing. I always got abuses from them, and it was also told that I did nothing for anyone".

On looking carefully, two types of things are being done here at the same time, one is to tell oneself to be great, to impose doership in oneself and after that there is also anger and regret in him that there is no one for him.  This kind of behaviour increases chances of depression in people. 

For hours and hours, all of them mentioned a lot about the help they had offered in their past and how little they received in return. It was visible that they were all suffering from doership within themselves. Such people are full of negativity and try to cover up the depression and sadness going on inside. 

I found that the more the burden of "doership" increases on the mind, the more the spiritual progress is hindered. Such people are extremely low on patience as well. 

Gyana Yoga says that there should be no dependence on thoughts and feelings. You are the doer in yourself. You do not do the work, but the work is done by you. That's why you carry the burden of the doer on the mind. The body had to do something with the senses. What is the problem if he is put in someone's service? If he had renounced that doership, the mind would have found complete rest. But even doing work in society, they are not able to experience selflessness. And ultimately this doership burdens the innermost being, making him physically and mentally ill.

Karma yoga says that don't worry about the fruit, effort should be made so that stability is attained. One must not carry out any activity with the expectation of any return, that is selfishness. Rather, one must see how much joy, happiness or satisfaction was received while undertaking a task or activity or helping someone.  

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