Fwd: Bhagavad Gita, DO I NEED AN EGO TO LIVE?

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, " Tony OClery " <aoclery

wrote:

 

, " alan jacobs "

<alanadamsjacobs@> wrote:

>

> ,Dear friends,

>

> In my opinion

>

> 1. The ego is naturally formed by Consciousness identifying with

the mind and body at an

> early age, and at this stage it is necessary in order to live.

>

> 2. When the ego becomes mature and starts to see through the

charade of life, its most

> intelligent part, intellectual discrimination, starts seeking for a

solution to its life of rare

> joys and more frequent suffering.

>

> 3. Through Grace it eventually comes into touch with this Teaching

and then becomes the

> spring board for diving into the heart searching for its own

source, or mistaken identity as

> a separate egotistic individual.

>

> 4. After Self Realisation the ego is consumed in the Heart . The

Jnani then lives from the

> Self which contains the attributes of intelligence, discrimination,

dispassion and

> unconditional love .

>

> 5.He now lives from what is termed the 'no mind state' i.e. the non

egotistic state, quite

> satisfactorily in the apparant world, egolessly. The ego is then

not needed to live, nor is it

> available.

>

> Alan

 

Namaste,

 

Depends what one means by ego....The animals have the same tool, and

it is used to react to danger and to fear. An animal knows when it is

being threatened and takes appropriate action.. This reaction in

humans has been grossly expanded and so is now the 'EGO' where the

mind and desire is identifying with a reactive mechanism and that's

all it is....Cheers Tony.

 

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