Question:

How is Doership the root cause of insecurity?

Answer:

Let’s first define Doership. 

When the body-mind is asleep, there is no sense of ‘I am sleeping now’. There is no ‘I’ there in Deep Sleep. If such a thought arises, it means you are not asleep; you are still awake. In Deep Sleep state, there is simply the knowing of the deep rest on account of the absence of the mind. That is why when one awakens, there is a realization that ‘I slept soundly’. Who is saying that ‘I’ slept soundly when the ‘I’ is absent there?

Is there a realization that the ‘I’ was absent in the Deep Sleep state, yet the knowingness faculty did not disappear?

What does this insight reveal?

• • Doesn’t it reveal that the ‘I’ is a thought which is not a continuously existing entity?
  • Doesn’t it reveal that it is there sometimes and not there sometimes?
  • Doesn’t it reveal that you know when the ‘I’ is there and you know when the ‘I’ is not there?
  • Doesn’t it reveal that the Real ‘Knowing-I’ lies beyond the false ‘I-thought’ that appears and disappears?
  • Can you see that just like the false ‘I’ is a thought that appears and disappears, so is its doership and experiencership?
  • Is it evident that doership and experiencership are mere ideas that appear and disappear?

The above insights are a prerequisite for recognizing that ‘I am not the doer’, in reality. Let’s dive deeper into the doership idea.

Have you developed the clarity of mind to see the following inner conflicts?

E.g., The task of vacuuming the carpet is happening: 

• • The hand motion appears and disappears. The perception of the sight of the vacuum appears and disappears. There is no ‘I’ claiming that ‘I am doing this task’. When nobody else is in the room, there is no ‘I’.
  • The ‘I’ is only when the ‘You’ is. A family member enters the room, and the ‘I’ appears. The ‘I’ pretends that ‘I am the only one who does this task, nobody helps me’, etc. It claims ‘I do this’ and ‘I experience that’.

E.g., A dramatic family moment is happening:

• • Sometimes there is an intense sadness, and a claim arises that ‘I am grieving’. There is an illusion created of being the experiencer.
  • Sometimes there is a moment when there is the recognition that ‘I am not grieving, I am not sad, I am distant. There is a sadness wave, but I am only knowing it from a distance. I am not affected’.

E.g., When there is failure:

• • Sometimes the ‘I’ falsely claims ‘I did this wrong’.
  • Sometimes it claims, ‘I did not do anything’.

E.g., When there is success:

• • Sometimes the ‘I’ falsely claims ‘I did this right’.
  • Sometimes it claims, ‘I did not do anything’.

If you have noticed the above opposites, you have recognized the natural Dvandva [conflict] between:

• • False Doership and Natural Non-doership
  • Illusory ‘Iness’ and the Natural Nobodyness.

Something within you knows what I am saying is right. Listen to that inner voice, it is your internal Guru trying to make it evident to you that your illusory doership is causing you sorrow and pain. It is stealing your peace away. True peace is in accepting that nobodyness and nothingness is the absolute Reality. The simple SEEing, accepting, and embracing of this reality is what lifts away all Dvandva. A sweet, lingering happiness reigns. That allows you to see that it was Doership that was causing the insecurity. The removal of the Dvandva removes the insecurity. Thus, it is revealed that Doership is the cause of Insecurity!

Hope the question met its answer!