The first question is: What is ego and self?
Ego is false pride and the self is the real personality of a person.Both are called "I"; but the "I" in ego is false and the "I" in self is real.You can put it this way.....Ego is the devil or saturn and the self is the angel or God.But, now a human being has fallen into a trap!Ego is dominating the self in every aspect of life.... be it in commerce,relationships,inventions,knowledge,study or what not.How was this ego born?Ego was born out of knowledge and not wisdom.Now, what is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?Knowledge is what you learn in school or college.Subjects like,history,geography,mathematics is called knowledge.Knowledge will help you to get a job in any company;but it will not help you to live a life of peace,calm or joy.If you require real happiness or bliss,then you will require wisdom.You can get wisdom by training under a spiritual Guruji.He cannot teach you about school subjects,but he can tell you something about the secrets of life like,awareness,meditation,life beyond,sound judgement.These are the real virtues of life which can stablise a person in his personal life and his family.
Knowledge is false information gathered by humanity since the birth of man.Mind you, don't confuse this knowledge with inventions created by scientists.But it is a fact that whenever, a scientist discovers anything new,"I" is born and this "I" is the ego.And when this happens, the mind of man takes a u-turn;it becomes unreasonable,illogical,wrong,and destroys the self, the real "I".
Speaking about self,the self is like God Inc.It has truth,beauty and innocence.How to recognize this truth,beauty and innocence?Truth can only be recognized by the self only when ego is separarted from it.Its like separating water from milk.Once the whole water is drained off from the milk by heating,you get the real milk.Beauty is always within and not outside.All beautiful man-made structures are mirages;they are temporary.Why?Because of possessiveness.Once you want to possess beauty,it is lost forever.You buy an expensive painting at an art gallery,you own it and you hang it on the wall of your bedroom.What happens?After sometime,you lose interest in your painting and beauty is lost.On the other side,observe a rose with thorns in a pond.If you don't possess this natural wonder,you will admire the rose as well as the thorns.Here,beauty creates a kind of adventure,a thrill!And,what about innocence?Innocence is your very nature.Truth and beauty will draw you into deep meditation.Meditation is complete relaxation of the mind,soul and body.Once you are in this state,innocence will be born.Try it!
Ego and self are interconnected.Once you separate ego from the self,you are in bliss,joy,happiness.How to do this? You can do this by just witnessing,watching,observing without any judgement.If you judge even once, the full magic is lost.The mind has become tired of judgement.How many things to judge in life? How many judgements a mind can handle.....a thousand,a million,a billion?Its madness!Now,we want our minds to relax,to rest,to open up,to enjoy silence,which is real rest.When you see the world outside with billions of objects,it has disastrous effect on the mind......it becomes extremely tired,because it has learnt to judge only and critisize and not enjoy.How many things to judge in life and what do we get from judgements.....nothing but misery!What is right,who is wrong,no one can prove;it is all madness,churning in a fake world.Now, we want our minds to rest,to ease,to experience joy and this can be done by just observing,witnessing without judgement.Keep a tab on your mind by strictly telling it not to judge.
Many people want to know what is witnessing?Witnessing is just looking or observing without any judgement.Observe anything in your house....e.g.a chair.Don't judge the chair,don't have a description of the chair in your mind.Just witness as an object of existence.Slowly and slowly,the chair will disappear from your mind.Why has this happened?Because, the mind has become clear,empty and there is only one object,'chair' in your mind.If you have too many things in your mind,then the mind becomes confused;there are far too many distractions for the mind to handle.
Now take an emotion of hate.Don't judge hate;see it as a way of life,be silent,let your mind be cool and slowly, this feeling of hate will disappear.
Consider witnessing as a form of God,who is about to transform you.There is a difference between a witness and a doer.The doer is a corrupted man,full of flaws and no beauty; a witness is a man of existence,like a God.Imagine, among all the noise,dins,sounds,chaos of the world,you are a witness.The noise is there,but the sound is muted;it is like soft music in a very low decibal.You are in the centre of a circle and the full circumference belongs to you.In fact, you become the whole circumference and existence and disappear,become invisible,dead and merge with the universe to become one whole and nothing else.
When this happens,life becomes one big celebration,a party you never want to end!When you reach this stage,a great peace and silence will dawn on you.You become centred with bliss,joy and happiness.You will feel a great burden on you mind being suddenly lifted and an unusual innocence will come over you.You will be like a new-born child in the midst of nature!
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