Ego

I want to scribble on Ego for sometime. I forgot the definition of Ego taught in psychology class. What I undetstand Ego is as follows...

Whenever, you identify yourself with something. That identity will be ego, will cause ego. For example, I am an engineer. But essentially, I am not an engineer. Essentially, I am I. Just an existence, a being. But we keep on identifying. Whole life we identify our self with what we are not. This is where ego pops up. And sometimes ego is very subtle. If someone is polite, you can say he doesn't have ego. But that's not always right. Even a polite people can have ego. They have ego of politeness. A good person can have ego of goodness. I have seen such people. And sometimes, their ego of politness is even greater than ego of someone's rusty nature. At even more abstract level, you can say ego is negative truth. Negativity of truth is ego. Wherever there is no truth, ego persists. Because only false identity remains in that case.

Intelligent people - Updated

To have a happy world we don't need intelligent people. We need contented people. Loving people. Intelligent alone cannot bring happiness. Intelligence alone is like an ash. Unless it is wrapped by love it will rot day by day. Why we have such a perverted civilization? We have been consistently working to attain peace, love and Harmony for last 5000 years. But still we have no trace of love, happiness and Harmony yet. Our endeavour of 5000 years went in vain. Total waste I would say. In the last 5000 years we have hardly created few people who attained peace. What went wrong? So, what is the possibility that in the next 5000 years we will have peace? Only thing we have thought so far is - "It will happen one day". But it never happened. That day never came.

हमने हमेशा से यही गीत गएँ हैं - "हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन"। और वो दिन कभी नही आया। हमारे गीत होने चाहियें - "हम हैं कामयाब"। समाज ने हमें सिर्फ़ भविष्य की तरफ़ ही धकेला है। सबकुछ मिलेगा लेकिन भविष्य मे। अभी कुछ नही मिलेगा तुम्हे। लेकिन बाद मे सब मिलेगा। कल मिलेगा। और वो कल कभी नही आता है। सदियाँ बीत जाती हैं और वो कल नही आता है। आएगा भी नही। समाज ने कभी भी वर्तमान को नही पहचाना है। समाज की सारी अवधारणायें भविष्य मे होती है। इसलिए तो ऐसे गीत गाये जाते हैं- "हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन।" गीत लिखने वाले को यह ठीक से पता होना चाहिए की "कब होंगे कामयाब"। एक दिन से कोई अर्थ नही निकलता है। मान लो अरबों खरबों वर्षों के बाद कामयाब हों तो क्या फायदा - हम तो रहंगे नही उस कामयाबी को देखने के लिए। तो फिर उस कामयाबी मे क्या रखा है। कामयाब हों या न हों सब बराबर है। हमें कामयाब अभी होना है। भविष्य मे नही।

Remember one thing - no matter how great device you make, how intelligent device you make, how great service you provide, they can't make you happy. Devices/Services doesn't bring happiness. Intelligence doesn't bring happiness. We made so many devices - computer, laptop, mobile, airplane, car, Internet etc. We still have problems, we still have anarchy, we still have terrorism, we still have poverty. So, that clearly signifies that intelligence doesn't bring happiness. Happiness is inside. Within you. I have never met an intelligent cum happy person. It will be just slight exaggeration if I say - intelligence and happiness are antonyms. Just slight exaggeration.

The bigger problem, even bigger than the intelligence is the ego. Ego is the cause of all problems. The reason why society failed in reducing people's ego is transcendental nature of ego. Ego goes very deep. Ego is not only that what you read into psychology books. It almost touches to the existence level. Truth is the positive existence. Ego is the negative existence. Truth and ego are both at almost same level. But one is positive another is negative. And at a time only one is active. Unless you become supremely free, you are on negative existence. that is - on ego. Ego is the substrate on which our entire consciousness is doped. What these supremely free people do is - they cut that substrate. When that substrate of ego is cut what remains is the positive existence - that is truth. Society has no idea how to cut that substrate of ego. It's not taught in the school or colleges or universities. Infact, society will never teach you anything which might inadvertently enables you to cut that substrate of ego. Whenever that substrate of ego is cut - truth prevails. Until then it's all dark.

The reason why we have such a perverted civilization is that society never taught us "how to love". They never taught us how to accept the situation as it is. We have not created these winds, these sands, these air, these sky these forest, these animals, birds. So, why using all these. You can use, but you have to pay the cost. Nature never gives anything in the free. Although we have so much scientific development but humans are the most perverted animal. That's the cost I was talking. We progressed, but at the cost of perverted civilization. Another animals have equal rights to use natural resources. We have taken away homes of tigers, lions, elephant and put them into zoo. What a shhit activity! We kill them to make our shoes, to have food. Where your home is now should probably would have home of a lion. Lol. All these things gonna come back to us. In any form. It will definitely come. That's my prediction. Infact, it has started coming. Global warming, flood and so many other environmental problems have started.

The biggest unfortune I would say is - incomplete knowledge. Society never analyzed anything completely. Everything has happened in a haphazard manner. Look at your life. Hasn't everything happened in a hurry? As if a train was missing. It doesn't matter if you miss a train, there is always a next train. So, why hurrying? To my knowledge society has never thought with cool and calm mind even for a fraction of second. Incomplete knowledge is dangerous. Your intelligent mind always gives you incomplete knowledge. Ask why? Because, if intelligence impart complete knowledge then, there is no use of intelligence. Because,knowledge is complete. Now you don't need more intelligence to know more knowledge. That's why intelligence always impart incomplete knowledge. The only way to know the complete knowledge is to accept, is to observe, is to achieve egoless state. Try to understand the word achieve. Don't fight with the existence. No body could ever fight. Do not resist. Just accept. All things will be fine.

That was the theory. But there is an additional constraint here. I think in one of my previous post I mentioned this. We have had few happy people. Buddha was happy, Jesus was happy. But , that's not enough. Because, the constraint is - in order to have happy humanity everybody has to be happy. Even a single unhappy person can make whole humanity unhappy. Unhappiness is more viral than happiness. So, basically every body has to become like Buddha. We never met this constraint. That's why so far have unhappy and stumbling humanity.

Who am I

Friday night is an idle time to talk about philosophy ;)

This is what Upanishads ask - Who am I? Of course, life is not just about earning, eating, mating, shitting and sleeping. Definitely it has some purpose. Ramanna maharshi whole his life long he pondered over - Who am i? Single question. He just tried to find the answer of this single question. Whole life at Arunachal ranges, that's what he did. Who am I? What you are trying to do is - you are trying to find answer of many questions. You are trying to do more than what you can do. You ask questions, but that leads you no where. One answer arise another question. And it goes on and on. Then it starts forming a chain. A very long chain of questions. In a nebulous manner. Out of no reason, we just can't take human body and start doing nonsense. It definitely has some purpose.

From where we came? We came due to our parent's physical interaction. A physical interaction created a soul? Fleshial movement can create soul? Looks strange. So where were we before our birth? What's our true age? Don't think your age is just how much old your body is. It is actually infinite. When someone ask my age, sometimes I get into trouble. What a stupid question is he asking. He should ask what is the age of your body? Not yours age. Because, I was existent even before my physical birth. So, the question that - what is your age is wrong. If at all someone ask this stupid question - say him Infinite. Lol.

The world you see is expressed. You can feel it by your five senses. We have no idea of anything beyond these five senses. Even mind is part of one sense. The universe you see exist till where our senses goes. After that it's unexpressed. It can't be understood. So there is an interface of between expressed and unexpressed. One side of that interface is expressed - that is your universe you see and feel by your senses. The otherside is totally unexpressed. The expressed side need sun to lighten it. Unexpressed side doesn't need anything. There moonlit night happens without moon. Difficult to imagine, don't try to do that - it will make you mad. That interface is very important. Mind you, in the unexpressed universe there is no concept of time or space. It's fully transcendental. So, that interface somehow converts unexpressed into expressed and expressed into unexpressed. That's how it balance. I can't give you an equation governing this phenomena. But, something like that definitely happens. Even science as of toay is a baby to grasp this concept. But one day science will understand what I am talking. Science will take at least billions of year to reach to the point I am talking. I am talking at interface level. Science is fully expressed. Since has no concept of unexpressed. It's impossible to have expressed without unexpressed. That's one reason science is unable to give a unified general theory which describe the nature. If something works in relativity it fails in quantum and vice versa. Because, science has no concept of unexpressed. Sciency tries to analyze everytihng in a expressed manner. Even it tries to express the unexpresssed. Lol. Unexpressed is at the substratum of the universe. It's due to unexpressed, this expressed universe is balanced. Else, all the atoms will disintegrate to it's source - that is unexpressed. Someone is holding the electrons to nucleus. How does electron know that it has to revolve around nucleus day and night nonstop. I know all those electromechanical force crap operating between them that's causing them to revolve. But the question is why this force is active? Why doesn't this force cease to exist. There is definitely someone who is applying this force. I call it God's will. Due to God's will those electrons are held by nucleus. Forget all those electromechanical crap you studied in your school physics book. Those were just holy crap. Lol.

Unless you know your source. You know nothing. More than 99% of your knowledge are just bookish or gathered from someone or learnt from someone. Develop your own expression. Don't copy. Know your source. Try to find from where this feeling of I-ness is arising? Actually, you don't see your real I-ness. What you see is your own egoistic manifestation on I-ness. Remove these temporary cloud of ego. And let this real I-ness shine. Once again I will clary between Ego and I-ness. Ego is your own manifestation. That's your own calculation. I-ness is universal manifestation. Fundamentally, the very same I-ness is condensed to take the form of Ego. And it sometimes is so strong that it questions on the existence of I-ness (by taking hidden power from I-ness). That's what you have been doing for centuries.

The observer

When do you become observer? Being an observer means being aware of what's going on. But, who is the observer? It's the indwelling consciousness within us. The same consciousness is spread ed everywhere. And is in every human being. However, that pure consciousness is wrapped by the clouds of ego. It's your ego which prevents you from being observer.

Ego makes your heart like a stone, It makes your heart like barren land where no fruit of happiness can survive. First you have to drop your ego to understand the all pervasive consciousness. Understanding that you are the doer alone is the most foolish act. Doer is the consciousness. You falsely assume that you are doing. If you become silent observer you'd never say i am doing.

Either you exist or GOD exists. Both cannot exist together. When you exist, your ego boosts you up. Then GOD is absent. There is not much space in this universe that two things can survive. Only one will exist at a time - either you or GOD. This is what is Vedanta. Non dualism.

What is the relationship between ego and GOD?

GOD is inactive. GOD doesn't interfere your freedom. GOD let you do whatever you want to within natural laws. Ego is active. Ego most vibrant. Your ego will create the gap between you and god. And if you become observer of your ego that will bridge the gap.

Many says everything is GOD. That's true only when you become the observer. The witnesse. Otherwise you are everything. GOD will not hamper your natural evolution but when you become pure observer, the evolution will happen by GOD. That way you won't be bounded by the laws of karma's. Otherwise, your ego will accumulate lots of karma's. The only way to destroy the effect of karma's is to become pure observer.

You yourself don't let the things happen. You are the biggest problem of yourself. There is a story. An elephant was crossing the bridge. Out of his weight the bridge started shaking. The ant on the elephant said "I shock the bridge". Elephant said, "yeah, you are also there, I didn't Even heed you". Your ego is like that ant sitting on the elephant like infinite consciousness saying "I am the doer". Don't be ant. Ego is nothing but condensed manifestation of consciousness.