2-[jyotish_tat_sat], from Mark Kincaid....3/21.... When The EGO goes..-& becomes Cosmic Ego...

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Here's a wonderful discussion regarding the ego, I, Sun....Self..and enlightenment...\

 

 

Mark K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I'd like to add one thing...here...

 

That the positive 'spin' on the ego, when it's in the role of the 'I'...and not overly arrogance, egotistical or inferior.... when the soul or awareness enters into the Self... one could also say that the ego....expands....

 

And yet, it's not the general ego trip, kind of expansion....but it's the kind of expansion that leads to the Cosmic ego....

 

There is a Cosmic ego, or I....and when you realize that inner reality as your own, it has the effect of actually creating or reflecting great humility!

 

Because when you realize you are the Self of the universe.... it can be quite expansive!...

but at the same time that you can experience this.... contained within that experience is the wonderful knowingness that all others....are also that Cosmic Self...

 

So the ego...expansion that Enlightenment can represent...isn't an ego, that feels better or superior to any others...but in fact feels one...with all!

 

Jai Guru

 

 

 

Mark Kincaid

 

 

 

 

 

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jyotish_tat_sat

Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:59:18 -0000

jyotish_tat_sat

[jyotish_tat_sat] Re: When The EGO goes..---->Sanjay AG

 

 

Sanjayji,

 

> The moment the EGO goes, all that remains is GOD.

 

Agree 100%.

 

 

However, we have to bear in mind the differences between ego, egoism

and egotism. They are not the same!

 

Ego is a double-edged sword. It is indeed the identity of every

living being. It is required for survival. Ego is required for the

existence of the soul in each of the sapta loka (7 worlds created by

God). But at time of mukti, the ego (worldly identity) is left behind.

 

Suprabatam!

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

OO

 

jyotish_tat_sat , " saggarwal_4 "

<saggarwal_4> wrote:

> All:

>

> Suprabhatam from the South Pacific coastline of NA.

>

> It has been a while since I posted. I have seen a lot of exchanges

> on EGO, feelings, etc... Please bear with me and go through this.

>

> I will like to write something more about EGO and the " Letting

Go.. "

> process.

>

> There are many techniques for attaining GOD realization. Some

people

> conclude that since everyone is involved in one such technique or

> another, GOD must be quite far from us and that it will take us a

> long time to find HIM. But all these notions about the difficulty

of

> finding GOD, about the need to work hard and to undergo

backbreaking

> tests in order to experience HIM, arise from our EGO :-). In one of

> his poems, the poet-saint Brahmananda said there was never a time

> when GOD was unmanifest. God is manifest everywhere. He is born to

> everyone. If he seems unmanifest to us, it is because of our EGO.

> Tukaram Maharaj also said that although GOD is quite apparent,

> people are blind, and because of their blindness they keep

wandering

> here and there. According to the sage Vasishtha there are only two

> states: the state of bondage and the state of liberation. The state

> of bondage is the state in which we are trapped by our ego. The

> state of liberation is simply the state in which we are without

> ego. Swami Rama Tirth said " Because of the ego, a person fails to

> understand the TRUTH. He develops so much hatred and hostility, and

> he makes God's creation HELL. " In this way, the company EGO is the

> company of DEATH.

>

> Not only ordinary people are afflicted by ego. Great people also

> have egos. Being a small person has one redeeming feature: since

the

> ego of a person is small, his suffering is small. But the ego of a

> great person is enormous and so his suffering is also great. If a

> persons ego is small it can be tackled with a small rock. A little

> piece of rock, but if it is big, you have to use powerful cannons

to

> destroy it :-).

>

> The great saint Kabir used to sing that even the body of an animal

> has some use. When an animal dies, its hair, hide and its teeth are

> used in some way, but when a human being dies, absolutely nothing

> can be done with the body. Why Why Why ????

>

> I will tell you why with whatever I know....Coz, If a human being

> were to give up his EGO and go within, he would become GOD in an

> instant. Wouldnt he or she become GOD?

>

> To give up the EGO means to merge it in the bliss of the SELF, to

> dissolve our SMALLNESS into the vastness of CONSCIOUSNESS.

>

> The moment the EGO goes, all that remains is GOD.

>

> --Om Tat Sat

> [[sanjay Aggarwal]]