CWTVKS Volume 2

2) Ego—Hostiles

Ego

The ego is but a temporary formation necessary in the course of the Cosmic labour. Once its utility for the centralisation of the various elements of the being is served, it is a mere scaffolding which is to be cast away.

7 January 1951

What is called individuality is largely a euphimism for ego. The formation arid growth of the ego are inevitable in the development of consciousness. Only, the wise man knows how to keep it in bounds.

11 October 1949

What is the nature of the ego after all? It is a bubble thrown up by the consciousness that pervades the deeper parts of one's being. And as a bubble it bursts once its true nature is realised by the mind in the vital, which is ever obesssed with its own importance.

27 November 1948

If one has too much ego, he generally receives enough puncturing blows from the surroundings and finds his level. Where that has not been possible, the Divine Himself sends the necessary correctives.

August 1948

Nirahankara, absence of ego, is indispensable; often you think you have no ego left. Remember, wherever there is a stress on your part, there lurks the ego.

1 October 1948

There are egos and egos. The social ego, that is to say, the ego of social status, authority etc. is the most easily patent and therefore the easiest to eradicate. The intellectual ego is subtler and it requires a great effort to shed it. But the spiritual ego is the most difficult to spot, for it does not allow itself to be seized; and also it is the most difficult to remove. It is the most dangerous ego leading to a precipitous fall.

25 November 1948

There is no uprightness where there is egoistic pride.

10 April 1950

Ego and desire are the main roots of all suffering in the world. Man is obsessed with his own importance, his own self and cannot bear the other egos. He busies himself with the affairs of others, solely with a view to satisfying himself of their relative inferiority and his own superiority.

16 February 1951

Falsehood

Asurapriyam anrtam tadrupatvat tadaharatvat ca asuranam.

Falsehood is dear to the Asuras. For falsehood is the food and sustenance for them; that is their form and by it they live and increase. They and their kind are naturally attracted where there is falsehood; the divine whose svarupa (form) is truth is equally naturally repelled from where falsehood is lodged and prospers.

Falsehood is no Maya. It is a positive something which puts out concrete results and in a sense Maya itself is one result of it.

19 February 1949

Hostiles

Behind every adverse condition there is a world of hostile forces. Man may appear to be a small limited being; but through every opening in him, through pores as it were, the cosmic forces of good and evil act in and through him.

29 April 1950

Vague and nebulous ideas get shape when we think them out; if we proceed further and speak out these thoughts, they get a strong body as it were. Some ideas, fears, apprehensive thought-movements etc. are best left as they are. If we give them thought-form they get embodied, get life and would even travel right up to the object of apprehension, hover round the person and create an atmosphere where they could actualise themselves.

1 June 1949