Ahamkaara causes grief and must be uprooted from within

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Unknowingly, you may create and develop in yourself an abounding variety of selfish habits and attitudes that causes great discontent for oneself. The impulse for this comes from the power complex, the greed for accumulating authority, domination, power and the greed for things which can never be eternal and full. You may feel elated that you are master of all arts or owner of all wealth or possessor of all knowledge...From where did you acquire these? You may even claim that you earned all this through your own efforts, labour and toil, but surely, you received it from someone. The source from which all power originates is Sarweswara (Lord of All). Omnipotence belongs only to the Lord of all beings. Ignoring the omnipotence and deluding oneself

that the little power that one has acquired is one's own is indeed ahamkaara (selfishness, conceit, or pride). Ahamkaara causes grief and must be uprooted from within. It will not subsist in an individual filled with genuine devotion, recognized by the characteristics of kindness, love, patience, forbearance and gratefulness. Seek therefore, to develop these virtues in you