WHAT IS THE EGO !?

The ego is nothing but your sense of ‘self ’,

the collection of ideas and concepts that you have about yourself.

Be very clear: the ego is nothing but a collection of ideas! It is an imaginary thing.

The ego doesn’t even have a real existence. Yet it is this ego which is controlling your life!

It is the ego which creates a sense of separateness in you.

At birth, it separates you from your mother. Until the moment of birth there is no ego, no boundary. You are simply a part of your mother.

At the moment of birth, when the umbilical cord iscut, you sense your own boundary for the first time.

In the very first year after birth, the ego builds your picture of yourself and the world.

The ego is responsible for your sense of ‘me’ and ‘mine’.

Throughout your life, the ego puts you into the position of‘me versus them’.

It separates you from your parents, from friends and strangers, from nature, from all of Existence.

Whenever you utter the word ‘I’, you are breaking away from Existence. You cannot really break away, because you are an intrinsic

part of Existence – but in your mind you break away.

You create for yourself a world in which you are separate from all.

This world exists only in your mind – it is just a mental concept - but you allow this concept to rule all your actions.

You have always heard people say,

The ego is the root of all our misery.

Why?

Because the ego thrives on hostility, on conflict. Any environment which creates a sense of isolation is the survival groundfor the ego.

The ego may be a product of your own imagination, but it is acunning animal!

To stay alive, the ego creates a distorted version of reality inwhich all things are in a state of disharmony.

Look at your own life.

Whenever you experience pain, anger, jealousy, it is always the result of feeling separate from someone else, of feeling alone, of

feeling cheated.

In times of misery, you always experience yourself as being all alone.

In times of joy, you feel naturally connected with everyone and everything around you.

When you are joyful, happy,laughing – these are the times when your ego is at its weakest.

In your present life, you may experience these moments temporarily.

But meditation is going to take you to a permanent state of bliss.

Meditation is the process of falling in tune with the whole of Existence.

In meditation, there is simply no place for

separateness, no place for the ego.

Love ❤ & Blessings 🙏

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