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Who is the doer?

All actions are performed by the attributes of Nature;  he who is deluded by the ego thinks, ‘I am the doer.’ Chapter 3:27

Nature is said to be the cause behind the act, its instrument and its doer, while Being is said to be the cause behind the experience of joy and sorrow. Chapter 13:21

Being, seated in Nature, enjoys the attributes born of Nature. The attachment with attributes is the cause of its birth in good and evil wombs. Chapter 13:22

We, the beings, are the doer of actions.

• All the actions are performed by the nature, not by us, the beings.

• We, the beings, are deluded by the ego and regard ourselves as the doers.

Is it possible to overcome old age and death?

The Being who is not disturbed by these [sense contacts], who is same in joy and sorrow, who is of steady intellect is fit for immortality. Chapter 2:15

Having crossed over these three attributes arising from the body, the dweller in the body is completely freed from birth, death, old age and sorrow and attains immortality. Chapter 14:20

Death is imperative; every person has to become old and die.

It is possible to overcome old age and death and attain immortality provided one steadies the intellect, becomes same in success and failure and crosses over the three attributes of nature (purity, passion and delusion).

What is the cause of death?

A man contemplating the objects develops attachment with them. From attachment arises desire and from desire arises anger. Chapter 2:62

From anger arises delusion, from delusion confusion
of memory, from confusion of memory loss of intellect, from the loss of intellect he perishes. Chapter 2:63

Death is natural and every person has to eventually meet with death.

We perish or die due to the loss of intellect which is caused by a chain reaction that starts with contemplation of the objects, giving rise to attachment, desires, anger, delusion, confusion of memory and loss of intellect.