Understanding the Process of Shedding the Ego🔗

Anything that makes you feel separate from God is ego. When there is ego, you cannot love consistently and with the same deep feeling all the time; your love will be highly subjective. It will keep moving between extremes.

You don't know that there is a world beyond your ego which is much more blissful than what you are feeling now. Your ego is a life-sustaining element for you. But the simple truth is you have to let go of it!

Man never wants to let go in totality. He wants to cling onto something all the time and that something is his ego. Your ego is your very strength. You have guarded it so well over the years. It is the basis of your very existence. When your ego comes under threat, you feel insecure about your very identity. You feel your identity is dissolving and you start wondering where you are heading without an identity for yourself. Your ego faces a grave crisis.

The Master-disciple relationship is there only for you to lose your ego. When you are alone, you cannot lose your ego. The Master becomes the device, the support, for you to lose your ego. The more you dissolve into him, the more you will be ready to open up and lose your ego. When do you know that your ego is dissolving? When you start experiencing a certain joy that you have not experienced before.

You will start feeling joy for no reason at all. Just existing will make you happy. Of course, with the Master, you are always undergoing a surgery of your ego and there will be moments of deep misery as your ego is getting slashed. But when you emerge out of those moments, you would have taken many steps forward in your growth and you will feel boundless joy for no reason at all.