Ego is limited to individuality. Egos are
always changing. As a boy one had different ideas to what he has now. The ego then
was not the same as the ego now.
Psychologists glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other things or thoughts have combined with the consciousness, the formless witness, and must be separated from it.
Realists or Dualist say they shall go to Heaven or they shall attain Brahman but they fail realize, ‘what is ‘I’?’ ‘I’ is the mind. Mind is in the form of universe and universe appears as waking or dream. Buddha was partly right in teaching that it was an illusion.
Once seeker understands the ego is false entity within the false experience, he will have understood 80% of non-duality. One must learn that the ego is different from consciousness, which is the innermost self. And innermost self is beyond form, time and space because it is formless timeless and space less.
Homogeneity is the natural condition of the self. Through ignorance we create dissociation within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’.
There is no such thing as the ego. Ego is only the physical self within the false experience. Ego exists only within the waking or dream. Waking or dream both are false experience on the standpoint of the formless witness of the three states. Therefore the understanding of the ego is not the self and its nonexistence in the realm of truth is of vital importance.
The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘i’ is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal.
Psychologists glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other things or thoughts have combined with the consciousness, the formless witness, and must be separated from it.
Realists or Dualist say they shall go to Heaven or they shall attain Brahman but they fail realize, ‘what is ‘I’?’ ‘I’ is the mind. Mind is in the form of universe and universe appears as waking or dream. Buddha was partly right in teaching that it was an illusion.
Once seeker understands the ego is false entity within the false experience, he will have understood 80% of non-duality. One must learn that the ego is different from consciousness, which is the innermost self. And innermost self is beyond form, time and space because it is formless timeless and space less.
Homogeneity is the natural condition of the self. Through ignorance we create dissociation within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’.
There is no such thing as the ego. Ego is only the physical self within the false experience. Ego exists only within the waking or dream. Waking or dream both are false experience on the standpoint of the formless witness of the three states. Therefore the understanding of the ego is not the self and its nonexistence in the realm of truth is of vital importance.
The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘i’ is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal.
People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the
mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists
and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so
long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, Mind is the highest: it
is consciousness, non-dual wisdom.
The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or
dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the
individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples ideas of
that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious
heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the
reality of the ‘I’.
