Lamp of Manifestation: There is a much bigger Villain than Ego

Aug 24, 2015

There is a much bigger Villain than Ego

Spiritual aspirants are often asked by the spiritual preachers to fight their ego with all their arms and ammunition. And the novices also imagine that they’ll have to fight, with all their might, the extraterrestrial called ego that has invaded their kingdom of Self, and kill it to procure independence to their kingdom. They are also warned that the enemy ego will come in disguise again and again like phoenix, and they should annihilate it completely. Thus, there is so much fuss about this predator ego in the online discussions that I think it’ll be useful for the spiritual aspirants if I write a few points to dispel some misconceptions in this regard.

Many persons think that arrogance and ego are synonyms - they are not. Please note that we are not discussing the dictionary definition of ego here but about the ego principle. Ego principle confines our all-pervading Self to the boundary of our body. Arrogance is a state of mind. If I think I know everything and you know nothing, I am arrogant. Suppose I think that even when I harbor malice towards you in my heart for a prolonged period, no unfavorable events will happen to me. Then I am completely deceived by ego that individuates the Self.

Humility is antonym for arrogance but not for ego. Suppose you have succeeded in weakening your ego by means of some spiritual practice. You may or may not talk to others with humility. But you’ll treat others in your mind equally because inequality arises directly from ego. You’ll ignore all spiritual differences between person to person, animal to animal, bird to bird and plant to plant, and creature to creature as well. This experience of equality is so powerful that you’ll no longer entertain fanaticism of any kind.

Ego cannot be completely annihilated. During meditation it disappears, and after the meditation is over, it comes back. But since you have experienced your egoless state during meditation, the effect of ego is highly weakened. However, ego is necessary for our individuated experience. In the absence of ego, when you talk to your spouse, you’ll be talking to yourself in the disguise of your spouse because there will be none other than you.

Let us now talk about your battle against ego. Where do you expect to battle your ego? In your mind? In your body? In your heart? You can’t battle it here. Ego can be fought only in your discriminated and separated Consciousness. In your Consciousness that is discriminated and separated from your mind, body and heart. For, it is only your Consciousness that is expandable and not your mind or body or heart. When you fight ego in your discriminated and separated Consciousness, the fight will be between your Self and your ego, and your Self will triumph. But if you fight ego in your mind, body or heart, you'll be fighting your ego with your ego - a farce exercise. That's why all your efforts to win your ego miserably fail if you try before discriminating your Consciousness.

Why are you not able to separate your Consciousness from your mind, body and heart? Because of your Negative Energy that is packed up in your mind, body and heart. This energy binds your Consciousness to your mind, body and heart inseparably. It is a solvent that has dissolved your Consciousness in your mind, body and heart so that they are completely miscible like alcohol and water.

If you reduce this Negative Energy below a threshold level by some means, then your Consciousness and your mind, body and heart can be differentiated like oil and water. In the discriminated Consciousness you need not even battle your ego. It surrenders to you even before you start fighting.

Do you know that fifty percent of total enlightenment process time is consumed only to separate one’s Consciousness from one’s mind? Do you know that hardly five percent of total enlightenment process time will be required for winning ego if you start the fight after separation of your Consciousness from your mind, body and heart?

Now you tell me - who is the real villain? Your ego principle or your Negative Energy? The latter is packed up in the form of Malice, Anxiety and Intolerance in your heart, mind and body respectively. Practice either Divine Love Yoga or Expanded Consciousness Meditation to control your Negative Energy and move your identity to your separated Consciousness.

I have explained, in adequate detail, the theory and practice of Expanded Consciousness Meditation & Divine Love Yoga in my book SECRETS OF MANIFESTATION.

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~umasreedasan
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Susan ScottOctober 10, 2015 at 9:59 PM
excellent thank you -
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Blessed by Baba

It was the spring of 2004. I had gone on a personal visit to Chennai (India). After finishing my personal work I went to the Mylapore temple of Shirdi Sri Sai Baba. I had visited that temple a couple of times earlier.

After worshiping the main deity, I was just strolling around the temple. Then I was casually reading the inscription in a pillar that listed the popular eleven promises of Baba. I knew it already but I was just passing time casually reading it.

Suddenly I heard a voice behind me: "You want this?" I turned around to face a six and a half feet tall well-built man standing near me. I was too startled by the encounter of this rather strange visitor to answer him. But without expecting a reply he thrust a 3"x2" card into my right palm. Lowering my eyes I saw the card in my hand which had those eleven promises printed on its face. I felt I didn't need it. But when I raised my eyes, he had already disappeared in the crowd of devotees.

I wondered why Baba gave it to me through somebody or perhaps He Himself came to do the job. After all I believed in Him and I didn't require any promise of that sort. In fact throughout the previous year I was doing an extensive research in the doctrine of Surrender. I was spending much of my spare time in exploring the works of Sri Ramanuja and His disciples who lived in Srirangam (Trichy, India) for about five centuries. I was yet to get a satisfactory explanation and so my quest continued through 2004.

Therefore, the gift I expected from Baba at that time was to expound the theory and practice of the doctrine of Surrender. And then I flipped the card that was thrust into my palm a few minutes before. I was thrilled to see the picture of the pair of holy Feet of Baba (the one you see here above).

When I came back to Trichy from Chennai I felt I was blessed by Baba. My spiritual progress went at a break-neck speed since then.

In a decade Baba inspired and guided me to get spiritually enlightened.

Quotes of Shirdi Sai Baba

* He who sees Me in all these creatures is My beloved.

* It is My special characteristic that I always look to and provide for the welfare of My devotees.

* Be wherever you like, do whatever you choose, but remember that all what you do is known to me.

* Unless Lord wills it, nobody can do any harm to others.

* Believe Me, though I pass away, My bones in My tomb will give you hope and confidence.

* He who surrenders himself to the Feet of Lord will get free from all troubles and attain bliss.

* Lord runs and helps him who remembers and meditates on Him with love and affection.

* Neither I am God, nor Lord. I am His obedient servant and remember Him often.

* One who carps and cavils at others pierces Me in the heart and injures Me.

* I feel indebted to him who surrenders himself to Me. I shall repay his debt by giving him Salvation.

* Barring your name and form, there exists in you, a sense of Consciousness of Existence – That is Myself.

* See Me inside you as well as in all beings; you will realize all-pervasiveness and oneness with Me.

~ Shirdi Sai Baba

My Quotes

* A person with her Heart bleeding with Malice and her Mind restless with Anxiety and her Body experiencing Intolerance, is all set to manifest unpleasant Events and Circumstances to herself.

* Intolerance, Anxiety and Malice are the roots of Negative Energy packed up in our Body, Mind and Heart and expressed as Words, Thoughts and Desires of Negativity.

* Our internal Negative Energy in the form of Intolerance, Anxiety and Malice stored up in our Body, Mind and Heart, attracts far more severe penalty in the Court of universal Consciousness of God than our external Negative Actions.

* Once Malice, Anxiety and Intolerance occupy and own our Heart, Mind and Body, we’ll have to pay a heavy daily rent to each one of them in terms of Desires, Thoughts and Words of Negativity.

* Malice, Anxiety and Intolerance will kick us out of the flight of Consciousness and ground us into the deep muddy loose soils of our Heart, Mind and Body.

* Our Thoughts, Words and Desires of Negativity are contained when we get rid of Intolerance, Anxiety and Malice.

* When our Heart, Mind and Body get rid of Malice, Anxiety and Intolerance, Peace manifests itself inside and outside.

~ umasreedasan.

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There is a much bigger Villain than Ego

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