Suppose while you were asleep you had a dream that you met a bear while walking on the road. You wrestled with it, sat on its chest and finally killed it. The moment you awoke there was no bear to be seen, there was nothing. Similarly, to feel that "I am realised", "I am a saint", "I am an aspirant" or "I am after spiritual knowledge" is delusion. To feel that God "comes" and "goes away" is an illusion. Your illusory concepts play the role of the bear – when you wrestle with them, sometimes they make you fall and at other times you make them fall. The master's advice is, "Why do you meddle in this? All this chaos is the chaos of illusion." Let the objects be wherever they are. If you try to manage affairs, you will forget the primordial Supreme. Doership is the illusion and non-doership is Self.

Adapted by The Emily Dahl Foundation from the work of Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj (1888–1936).