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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Jayaraman writes
“ WHEN THE EGO DIES SOUL AWAKE’ , saying from a great man with good soul. How true it is . But how do you kill the Ego, so that it dies ?, Is it not that you need strong wisdom to kill the Ego so that your soul wakes up. This again a catch-22 situation or shall we call it as “” Dhonnaiya – neeyya’’ edhukku edhu adharam,, Has anyone quantified or graded EGO. Like nowadays acceptable Talibanism, people justify acceptable EGO, legalising their arrogance attitude and caress it in their format for climbing up the ladder of growth.Is there any instrument by which you can measure the scale of EGO, is it in Kilos or is it in feet. How is it measured. Escape saying it’s in the mind, the invisible. Another route to justify whatever you do and say it’s according to your balanced dictats of the mind. Jolly good—no one can ???? and also no need to show the method of arriving the end result, which is the mind . EGO is not like a ‘T’ shirt which you can remove and get rid of. It’s like skin and it’s part of the body, sometime bigger than the body itself. So how does anyone can kill the EGO or to keep it under the leash
Ego is like HDL and LDL cholesterol - bad and good ego - call it HDLE and LDLE. Ego makes you go up in life, have self esteem etc - ego also makes you insensitive to others - or bore others with your arrongant talk.
ReplyDeleteTo become egoless is not really to become ego less. Use ego to have self esteem and concentrate on your job, but be humble enough not to let it affect others or have superiority over others.
Fact is no one is doing anything grater than or less than others, so in a way bad exhibiting type of ego is silly.
If you can have ego without sufferring effects of comparison, you have good ego HDL EGO.
One very interesting aspect is both HDLE and LDLE like HDL and LDL gas to coexist. We need to keep the ratio of HDLE to LDLE within correct tolerance.