We are not the doer

There was a boy in the school, he always used to think I am the doer of everything and everything I wish I can do. But his mother used to tell him always, “my dear child you should not think like this, you will be proud, and nobody will like you.”

He always used to keep telling his mother, “Mother! You don’t worry your son is scholar and he always stood first in his class, no one can compete with me.” That boy become arrogant and he always used to speak with his classmates in very rude way.

There was exam time came and he was always feeling and excited I am the only one who get good marks as regularly he used to get. Exam started and he was doing very good in his all the paper. One day that was his final exam, he thought I must feel relax even my all papers gone well and this is the easy one so no need to worry.

He was in little relaxation mode, but his mother was worried with his behavior and She told, “look! my boy I am going out for some work and your exam is at 8 O’clock so please wake up and be ready.”

Boy replied very casually, “Mother, you please go and don’t worry about me.” And he again went to sleep.

His mother went out and after few hours when his mothers come back and saw he is even in sleeping mode. She called up his child, “Dear you missed your exam.” And when his child woke up and saw the clock it’s already 12 O’ clock and he started crying loudly holding his mother hand.

His mother told him nicely, Don’t worry beta, “It’s better to fail in exam and be humble rather than pass and become egoistic. And she told his Son, You are not the doer, that was your confusion.

In Bhagwad Gita Chapter 3.27, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna:

प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः ।
अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥ २७ ॥

The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.