What is Ego?
What is ego?
In simple
words ego means ignorance; and egoistic means self centred. Ego is the biggest
enemy of human beings. Egoism is excessive concern for one’s own interests;
excessively high opinion of oneself. The greatest intoxication is that of the
ego; the worst madness is that of anger. A fool whose mind is deluded by egoism
considers himself to be the doer. Unhappiness comes from the sense of I and
Mine; they indicate ignorance. The more we identify ourselves with little ‘I
‘in us more will be our problems and confusions in life. One may understand the
Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
If one thinks
of ignorance as a tree, the seed and the trunk of the tree are formed by the
ego; properties are its branches, spouse, children are smaller branches,
material wealth its leaves; paapa & punya are its flowers; happiness and
unhappiness are the tree’s fruits. In order to exhaust mental impressions (Ego)
nature provides new equipments (bodies) in which the same ego comes to live
repeatedly life after life.
Man alone is
given the freedom to act as he likes and to the extent he disobeys the
universal law of sacrifice, to that extent he come to suffer, because he, with
his arrogant and egoistic actions, brings discard in the harmony of the
existence around him. All our sufferings in this world are caused by our own
ego centric misconception and consequent arrogance characterized by our ever
multiplying demands for wealth and our endless desires.
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