The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self. The child first becomes aware of his mother. Then, reflectively, he becomes aware of himself. First he becomes aware of objects around him. Then, by and by, he begins to feel that he is separate. This feeling of separation gives the feeling of ego, and because the child first becomes aware of the ego, ego becomes a covering on the Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your periphery is meaningful. And there are many problems. The ego can be taught and the ego can be made docile and the ego can be forced to be obedient. The ego can be made to adjust, but not the Self. The Self cannot be taught, the Self cannot be forced. The Self is intrinsically rebellious, individual. It cannot be made a part of society. Society needs you as an Ego.
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive; you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there. That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing, the ego must not be there.
Meditate! ❤️☀️☮️☯️🌸🌈🧘🏻♀️🕉🙏
