What do we really control?

What do we control

An excerpt from my book, Unravelling, releasing soon.

“Who are you?”   

Aadit.

“Are you sure you are Aadit?”

Yes.

“What are you doing?” 

I am sitting here in silence; breathing, meditating.

“Are you sure You are the one breathing?”

Yes I am.

“Is your breath under your control – are you initiating it, stopping it, making sure it’s reaching where it needs to?”

No. I don’t control it.

“So the breath comes and goes without you doing anything about it”         

Yes.

“Are the functions of most of your organs – heart, kidney, brain, liver and others under your control?”    

No.

“Can you call your body yours if you don’t even have control over its organs and parts?”

No.

“What is under your control:  if not your breath, not your organs, not even the body that you call yours?”      

My thoughts and actions.

“Are your thoughts and actions a part of your body?”

No. They are a part of Me.

“Part of Me?! Does that mean ‘Me’  or ‘You’ are different from your body?” 

Yes.

“Are the results of your thoughts and actions under your control?”

No.

“Is anything under your control?”

No.

“Who are you then when nothing is in your control?”

A doer. An observer.

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