The ego is the mind’s identity of our own construction, an identity which is false. We are more than just the mind. If we take all the beliefs of what we are – beliefs about our personality, talents, and abilities – we have the structure of our ego. These talents, abilities and aspects of our personality will be attributes of our skills, but the mental construct of our “self” is artificial. And while this description might make the ego seem like a static thing, it is not. Rather, it is an active and dynamic part of our personalities, playing an immense role in creating emotional drama in our lives.
I know in the initial stages, when I used to teach, the results we used to produce. It's not that it didn't get into the head. It did. There was a period I used to walk around, thinking that I was doing great things in life. One story and one incident changed my life. Even before we go into human engineering, I would love, if this story and this incident can also transform your life.
It seems, a crow was flying holding a piece of meat between its beak. And very soon, it saw many other birds were chasing the crow. The further and further it kept flying, more and more birds were chasing, till it eventually occurred to the crow, "They are all not chasing me. They are chasing the piece of meat I am holding between my beak."
It opened and dropped that piece of meat, and as that piece of meat was falling, all the other birds went after that falling piece of meat. Alone in the sky, it seems the crow remarked, "In dropping that piece of meat, I gained the freedom of the skies. The entire sky became mine." And that piece of meat in our life, is our ego. We think the world is against us.
We think the world is nasty with us, we think the world is hurting us.
But it is actually the ego which is going through all these things. I'm not giving you a very sophisticated philosophy. I'm just sharing with you a very simple understanding.
When ego comes, everything else, including your peace of mind, goes. When ego comes, everything else goes, when ego goes, everything else comes. The freedom with which you can live your life, because as long as your ego involved with the world, you have to live your life as if your own shadow is chasing you! You live in this eternal need to prove yourself to the world, which you don't have to!
You're accountable to your creator, not to every next stranger you cross in life. You're accountable to your conscience. You're accountable to truth. You're accountable to the magnificence with which you have been created as a human being. But we live our life in this eternal need to prove ourselves to every individual, not realizing, if you expect everybody to be happy with you, you can never be at peace with yourself, because it's impractical that everybody can be happy with you.
And yet, your ego puts this demand on you!
So, all I request is, before you realize, drop all your labels, drop all your ego identities & live a cheerful life.
Thank you so much Guys.
Stay Fit, Take Care & Keep Smiling.
God Bless !!
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