Ego

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There is no seeker other than the ego, whatever the seeking – money, fame, power or enlightenment, what the ego seeks is his destiny - God’s will / cosmic law. The ego is the impersonal consciousness, identified with a particular body mind organism as a separate entity with a sense of personal doership. Enlightenment is the total acceptance that no individual is capable of ‘doing’ anything, good or bad. This at once gets rid of the accumulated burden of (hatred) for oneself for one’s own actions and hatred for the others for their actions. After enlightenment, all that the ego (without the sense of personal doership) does is to do whatever he feels like doing in any situation as if he has free will. Thereafter, with the total acceptance that whatever happens is God’s will / cosmic law, he merely witnesses whatever happens through his body and any other body, without blaming or condemning anyone neither himself nor the other. When the body dies, the consciousness is released from its identification and becomes impersonal once again. That is all life and living is all about.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar, from a letter written to a seeker, June 2006

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