Egos

[Guest guest]

In a puppet-show, all that the audience enjoys is the

play acted by the puppet. But the puppet is in reality

lifeless and incapable of action. There is a carved

block of wood, and an unseen puppeteer.

A man values only his individuality and his soul, or

personality. But Bhagavan says this is imaginary -

there is a spirit, the Self, which is devoid of

notions of individuality. And a totally inert lump of

matter. Nothing else.

This has of course been known in the west for

centuries, but largely forgotten.

How many legends are there of the snaring of the ego?

I can think of at least seven without effort:

 

1. Buddha ascending Mount Meru with his dog (ego),

denied entrance to

Nirvana, but on his insisting, the dog becomes

essential to his entry.

 

2. Scheherazade of the 1001 tales of the Arabian

Nights. Wiles of the ego, which

survives by telling enchanting stories.

 

3. Maori legends of the Taniwha, a monster which kills

villagers, but is eventually

snared, cut open, and found to have swallowed all

kinds of people (the guises

of the reincarnating spirit).

 

4. Punch and Judy. Punch's conquests of his dog

(animal passions), through

man-made law to death (the hangman). A sucession

of murders loved by

children.

 

5. Hercules and the 9-headed Hydra. Two heads grow

for every one cut off.

 

6. (Also Greek mythology): The gorgon Medusa, death to

look at, beheaded by

using a mirror.

 

7. Pinocchio - a puppet carved by and brought to life

for the puppeteer.

 

I suppose I could add the Resurrection of the Dead. Or

memory of dead egos of past lives. Fully understood by

the early Christian church, but when reincarnation

became a heresy, interpreted as different people all

jumping from their graves together. There must be many

more, derided as pagan and misunderstood

 

Nasrudin

 

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