Interesting piece of contradiction is this word EGO. As human beings we don't like it but we own it. When we talk of the word EGO we need to understand some fundamentals. There are only two kinds of environment in our WORLD, that we should watch carefully - The Outer & The Inner.
In the SPIRITUAL WORLD (The Inner) when the high source of our energy & passion comes from BEING, one becomes just like a little child - without resentment, without attachment, without EGO but full of life & joy. Yes we do get caught up in scenarios which create circumstances to test our EGO CENTRIC approach (I) or in short our SPIRIT (The SOUL).
We can't understand EGO till we understand GOD/ SPIRIT/ ENERGY. God is both infinite WISDOM & infinite FEELING. When GOD manifested itself in creation, god gave WISDOM a form in the FATHER & gave FEELINGS in form of the MOTHER. As human beings we need to experience both the MOTHER & FATHER in our dealings & everything we do. However, EGO & SPIRIT are both parallel strengths of a BEING.
Your SOUL/ SPIRIT is absolutely perfect, but when identified with the physical body as EGO, its expression becomes distorted by human imperfections. Man has falsely identified himself with the PSEUDO-SOUL or EGO. When the man transfers his sense of identity to his true being, the immortal soul, he discovers that all the pain, the suffering & even the joy is unreal.
We do everything & rather attempt everything to attain JOY. But the real joy is the joy of SPIRIT. EGO centric thought takes us away from BEING what we could be. It also leads to BAD JUDGEMENTS. It is also important to understand that Good judgement is a natural expression of WISDOM, but it is directly dependent on the HARMONY (the PEACE) within, which is the POISE of MIND. When the mind lacks harmony, it lacks harmony, it has no peace; and without peace it lacks both judgement & wisdom.
In such hours people generally turn to EGO for advise & the advise by EGO is always an advise of OUTER & not INNER. The stimulus to EGO is the WORLD. The stimulus to PEACE is YOU, yourself. May God Bless you all.
About Me
- ASH - THE SOUL STIRRER
- I started my career in HR by choice. Even without a degree or certification in HR my career in HR started on a HIGH NOTE much before I eventually did my Post Graduation in HR from SYMBIOSIS (SIBM).In the past many years of my careers, I worked in multiple segments as diverese as IT, TELECOM, CONSULTING (1 of Big Fives) as well as Engineering Industry & currently enjoying my stint with an Outsourced Services International Group.
1 comment:
There is a nice exercise I had come across, during one Satsang, which deines EGO so well.
Start writing your various introductions on a piece of paper, when exausted, check the list and 2 things come out of it.
1) We get associated with Roles we are to play in this world/ lifetime.
2) If we remove all the worldly attachments, we are nothing. Other way to look at it is, we feel, we are, what we are only because of our surrounding but we still have the ego.
Regards
Rahul
rahul@epsiloncons.com
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