Spiritual Narcissism

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I am responding to my own message. Something triggered me.

 

 

> What happen when you stare in the mirror for too long, and getting

> obsess with this mirror image of the self......you get stuck and

> fall into this Narcissistic stage.

 

 

Someone asked me once : Are you a spiritual aspirant? This remark

got me to think for a moment. Not sure I replied. What is a

spiritual aspirant? I asked again. Does being spiritual means

spending hours and hours in the pooja room, or reading the religious

text or engaging in spiritual talk, or managing spiritual group?

 

I don't know. To me to spend the time cooking nutritious meal for my

family can be a spiritual experience. Helping an elderly or

blind person crossing the street can be spiritual. Doing quilting

too can be an extremely spiritual experience. So what is being

spiritual?

 

>From my understanding Spirituality then is something very personal

and very deep. Spirituality touches the very person of who and what

I am. It deals with how I perceive and react towards the world

around me

 

 

> Narcissism describes the character trait of self love.

> The word is derived from Greek mythology. Narcissus was a handsome

> Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo.

> As a punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own

> reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love,

> Narcissus pined away and changed into the flower that bears his

> name, the narcissus.

 

Now Lulu said, its a good story. But is it just a story?

 

Echo is in love with him, and would do anything to get the attention

of his love, but what did Narcissus did, he is more interested to

see his own reflection. He sees not the love of Echo, but his own

reflected image, like the mirror.

 

To a Narcissist, we are all like a mirror, echoing the image of his

impressions as feedback. When a narcissist is paying attention to

us, it's our own echoed image we see in the mirror of their face. We

are nothing but just a reflection of their image, nothing more and

nothing less. We are not significant but just an object, an image to

be contemplate. Narcissist is indeed in love with himself, or he is

inlove with his own reflection.

 

Now based on this Darpana effect, as I understands it, we have this

two form : the true and the reflective self. We strive to maintain

balance between this. Everything is about maintaining the balance :

the shiva-shakti, the yin-yang, etc.

 

Okay.. im stuck at this. Need to think further.

 

To be continued ....