Ego

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Dear Vamsee Garu and Reddy Garu and all other Devotees in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone .....

 

Here the question is not why, but how? Let me elaborate it further.

Most of our karmas are mind related, or say, to get our desires

fulfilled. The root cause for any of the six enemies, as Mr. Reddy

put it, is Desire. If it is not fulfilled for any reason, we get into

any or all of these. That is what Srimad Bhagavat Gita (SBG) in II /

62 and 63 says:

 

One gets attracted to an object by thinking about it repeatedly, and

that leads to desire to acquire it and when that desire is not

fulfilled, it results into anger (krodha) and due to krodha, one gets

attached to it and loses the balance of mind and due to that loses

the knowledge to discriminate between right and wrong and that is the

end of the life of a person as a human being.

 

The degrees or for that matter any embellishments are not, as they

are, per se, bad or signs of attachment or ego (ahamkara) but when

one is attached to them, as possessions and when they are not there,

one gets upset and suffers pain, that is the sure sign of ego

(Ahamkara).

 

Mother (Pondicherry) says that there are thousands of varieties of

visible and subtle ahamkaras, and in some instances, She cautions,

even weeping is a sign of ahamkara. She says that identify these and

root them out of your system one by one and see that they do not

reenter into you, because there is such a possibility. One has to be

very alert and ruthless in weeding them out.

 

Now coming to another aspect related to it, we have four

purusharthas, i.e., Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Kindly see the

way the words have been arranged. The base of the two sandwiched

purushardhas (i.e., Artha and Kama) to become eligible for the last

one, i.e., Moksha, is Dharma. Without following Dharma, you may earn

money and fulfil your desires, but you are not eligible for Moksha.

That is the reason, Adi Sankaracharya deplores in Bhajagovindam,

Punarapi Jananam, Punarapi Maranam..... One has to be very careful in

one's attitude and dealings so that one's earnings and the resultant

fulfilment of desires are on the basis of dharma only, AND NOT THE

OTHER WAY, to become eligible to get an entry point into Moksha.

 

That is precisely the reason, our Sanatana Dharma or Hindu Dharma

lays more emphasis on Tyaga and Prema, without which you will not

attain the Ultimate. " Na Karmana Prajaya Dhanena Tyagenaika

Amrutatwamanushuh " says our Samskruthi. Not by deeds (good or bad),

not by progeny, not by money, power, and not by any other menas, but

only by Tyaga, one realises the Ultimate Truth, the Nectar, reaches

the Jeevan Muktha stage.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna