Who is the doer in Yoga Asana practice?

When we do asana we have a concept as to what we are to achieve from the practice--health, flexibility, pride in accomplishment, the yoga butt! Action, though is not the ultimate reality. But we superimpose the energy to perform action (Kriya Sakti) on ourselves through the ego. Consider a flower. When the sun shines the flower blooms. Who is responsible? Blooming is occuring in the presence of sunlight so neither the sun or the flower are the doers of this happening. It is the nature of things that the flower blooms in sunlight. The mind tries to conceptualize natural events in it's language and says either the sun is the doer or the flower is the doer. If we closely look at this logic it will be found that there is no doer at all, things happen as naturally as they should. There is a futility in doing actions and thinking that they yield results according to our expectation and wish. To be in a state of bliss is inherent in every human being. When we forget the blissful nature of our "true self" and try to gain happiness through actions which satisfy the psychological needs of the mind we simply add to the depth of our conditioned state and spiritual ignorance. Actions which give pleasure are always transient and always associated with the shadow of misery. Pleasure and pain are always together in the result of action. Being focussed on the action of Asana practice leads to the formation of tendencies which obstruct our natural state of the self-conscious being. When Asana is done (or any work) is done without doership and the fruit of work is devoted to God the mind is purified to the state of suddha manas which helps us become liberated from the imprisonment in the ego--creation of thought. Cultivating the awareness born out of our connection to the cosmic consciousness will allow our asana practice to provide the natural path to appropriate physical and spiritual progression. Asana doership is just an idea born when work is done with desire or an eye to the fruit of the action. When we devote the fruit of our asana practice (or any work) to God the idea of the doer or doership is not there so there is no ego. In this way non-attached activity purifies the mind by getting rid of the idea of doership which prepares the mind to reflect pure consciousness paving the way for liberation. Lord Krishna stressed in the Bhagavad Gita this attitude toward work and the fruit of work. Work done with desire and doership binds and limits our consciousness, where as impersonal work liberates us from the shackles of ego. So the next time you practice asana, try to make the practice impersonal and egoless and see if you can discover a new way to explore this excellent tool for spiritual development.