I remember years back, on a Virgin flight to JFK, I was talking to my co-passenger who was rambling excitedly on her aspirations, when I asked very innocently,"What would happen if you were to die tomorrow?". She said she found it very offensive. I actually meant for it to be intrusive to her thinking, rather than offensive to her ego.
But such is life, and particularly death. Death is the biggest offense to life in general and ego in particular. Nothing is permanent, everything is freehold.
Valmiki said Blueness of the sky is the optical illusion of space
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein on the other hand labels Ego as the optical illusion of consciousness
The mind is the seat of ego and ego's raison d'etre. Mind's job is creating duality- mind is duality. The ego's job is to perpetuate duality by judgement- rights and wrongs are its judgement. The ego's excuse is our suvival but in reality it is not concerned with our survival, but its own, and it protects itself by controlling us from changing our realities by its never ending and ever changing processes of judgement.
Prana gives fuel to the mind and to energy of judgement i.e ego
Sleep is Ego's Daily enemy
Pranayama is Ego's secret enemy
Meditation is Ego's willful enemy
Love is Ego's inevitable enemy (and anger, envy, jealousy etc are all ego's expressions of the various distortions of love)
Death is Ego's lethal enemy
A Master (one who has mastered the mind) or God is ego's most dangerous and destructive enemy !