Accept Yourself – In Gita Verse 4.13 According to the three modes of material nature and the work associated with them, the four divisions of human society are created by Me. And although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.
Krishna is saying that the whole existence and the structure for human society of four castes is created by me still I am non-doer. Not only in this world but in existence we also need to be non-doer.
In my few blogs I have written why even a person like Krishna or Buddha takes birth. When we die, we die in desire. While a person like Buddha or Krishna dies they just leave this body and when the universe wants them to guide many people to grow in consciousness they take birth. Even to the birth and death they are responding without any resistance or any desire. As we die in desire we take birth also to fulfill our desire.
Non-doer means without any resistance to respond from your own wisdom. Be courageous enough to be with yourself. Be with yourself, simply means accept yourself.
You have to be just yourself: When you are not trying to become anybody else, then you simply relax – then a grace arises. Then you are full of grandeur, splendor, harmony – because then there is no conflict! Nowhere to go, nothing to fight for; nothing to force, enforce upon yourself violently. You become innocent.
In that innocence you will feel compassion and love for yourself. You will feel so happy with yourself that even if God comes and knocks at your door and says, “Would you like to become somebody else?” you will say, “Have you gone mad?! I am perfect! Thank-you, but never try anything like that – I am perfect as I am.”
The moment you can say to God, “I am perfect as I am, I am happy as I am,” this is what in the East we call shraddha – trust; then you have accepted yourself and in accepting yourself you have accepted your creator. Denying yourself you deny your creator.
If you go and see a painting of Picasso’s and you say, “This is wrong and that is wrong, and this color should have been this way,” you are denying Picasso. The moment you say, “I should be like this,” you are trying to improve upon God. You are saying, “You committed blunders – I should have been like this, and you have made me like this?” You are trying to improve upon God. It is not possible. Your struggle is in vain – you are doomed to failure.
And the more you fail, the more you hate. The more you fail, the more you feel condemned. The more you fail, the more you feel yourself impotent. And out of this hatred, impotency, how can compassion arise? Compassion arises when you are perfectly grounded in your being. You say, “Yes, this is the way I am.” You have no ideals to fulfill. And immediately fulfillment starts happening!
The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. And the lotuses bloom so beautifully because they have not heard the legends about other flowers. Everything in nature goes so beautifully in accord, because nobody is trying to compete with anybody, nobody is trying to become anybody else. Everything is the way it is.
Just see the point! Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself.
Krishna tells Arjuna even though I created everything in existence still as a non-doer means I am also with myself, be with yourself and you will be connected with your own wisdom, your subjectivity and existences. Means you in unity with existence, and existence is using this body to act. This is non-doer. Remember everyone has to act from where they act makes a difference in the end result. Krishna has also acted, Buddha has also acted but when they act they just respond to the circumstances. They don’t act because of their desire, they act because they are compassionate towards us. When Buddha responded to Angulimal he acted but his action was from compassion towards Angulimal. All the others around the Buddha, who was watching Buddha, were also acting but their action was out of fear and desire to save their life.
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