Should Gita 3.27 be we are not the only doers?

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Hare Krishna. What we are doing right now in this world, we have to do it through material nature only. If I am acting at the material level and I am a spirit soul, so I cannot do it without a material instrument.
And that material instrument may work according to my desire, but I don’t control its working. So, right now when I’m speaking, when scientists try to simulate the process of human speech, they try to study how our voice cords work. It’s a very complicated process.
Sometimes if you have mechanized voices, they don’t sound like a human voice. The computer may have text to speech, but it is so flat. Because our production of voice, it’s a complicated process.
So, anything that is done, when it is done at the material level, the material body is involved. And we could say the material body is the primary thing that is involved. Just like say, if I use a computer and I say I’m chatting with someone on Facebook or on Skype or wherever.
Now, I cannot chat with that person without the computer. So, whatever I’m doing is through the computer only. So, everything that I’m doing in that chat is through the computer.
But it is not that the computer is doing it and I’m not doing it. So, what the Bhagavad Gita is saying is, in this verse, that what material nature is doing, if I take credit for that, ahankar, the word is ahankar. Ahankar is arrogance.
You know, we try to sometimes say the body is like a vehicle, it’s like a car. So, ahankar means ahankar. I am the car.
I am the body. We think that that is ahankar. So, the illusion is to think that what is done by the body is done by me.
I am the initiator of the action. But say, I may write a particular type of particular message on the phone or on the computer. But the whole process by which that message goes to the other person is another part of the world that I’m not doing that.
The technology is doing that. So, just as when we get very habituated to using some technology, we don’t even think there’s anything special over there. No, I just type and go to that person.
We are so habituated to using this body that we don’t think there’s anything beyond us. But we notice it when we are not able to speak. So, I’m not the doer.
So, when Krishna is saying material nature is doing everything, that is not wrong because whatever is done in this material world is done through material nature. So, the illusion is the doership is the thing that what material nature is actually doing, the thing that I am doing and you take credit for that. That is the illusion.