EGO IS THE ONLY BARRIER….

Not the physicality but the energy is the reality of this existence. It’s the energy which is the truth and which really exists. All that we see around us too is an expression of that energy only. This energy is pure light and is self-luminous. That’s why this energy of the existence is also known as consciousness. It does not need or depend on any other source for illumination. It’s like a lamp, nature of which is to illuminate. 

This consciousness is the real driver of everything in this existence including ourselves. Everything happens because of this energy and in the presence of this energy. What we know as death is nothing but the fact that the energy just moved on. Thus consciousness is the doer and driver of yourself too but you assuming or imagining that you as an individual; you as a body is the 'doer' or the things are happening because of you is what we know as ego. Ego is identification of that energy or consciousness with our body and thinking that ‘I’m’ this body and ‘I’m’ the doer. Ego arises with body-consciousness; ego arises with our mistaking the body for the Self; mistaking unreal for the real. 

Ego is an assumed and imaginary identity which has no real existence and hence an illusion or maya. Ego exists in mind only. It’s a creation of our mind and hence functions through the mind. Mind or thought comes into existence with this ‘I’ thought that I’m. Once the ‘I’ arises ‘me’ and ‘mine’ arise and with that, ‘others’ also arise. Since I look at myself as a body I look at others also as bodies. And this is how the whole world or duality arises. The world arises with our individuality. In reality, there is no such thing as world. World exists in our mind only. 

This imaginary ‘I’ is non-existent. There is no such thing within which you can name as mind. Forget ‘I’ and mind, if you search within, there is really nothing which you can call as yours. What we know as mind is simply thoughts. Mind exists in and by thought only. If there is thought, there is mind and when there is no thought there is no mind. You can try and experience it for yourself. In a thoughtless state, you are one with the existence; you are one with the reality. 

This is the only difference between an enlightened being and an ordinary person. An enlightened being is one who has become a direct expression of that energy. He has become a tool in the hands of the existence. The existence is, thus, finding an expression through him. The existence is happening through him. An ordinary person on the other hand, though he too is an expression of this existence but ignorantly assumes or thinks in his mind to be an entity separate from this existence. He thinks that he is the 'doer'. He thinks that things are happening because of him though the truth is that this whole existence is happening because of that energy only and in the presence of that energy. An enlightened one has recognized his divinity which an ordinary person is unaware of or ignorant of. That’s what knowledge and ignorance is; consciousness and unconsciousness is. That’s what self-realization is.    

The individuality or ego is in bondage, in the form of mind. For one who lives in identity with the body, the destiny is because destiny is of the body. The Self is always free. For those living in identification of the Self, destiny is not. Hence if you live as an ego or individual then you are in bondage. Living as Self is freedom and never in bondage. Birth and death are of the ego. There is no birth and death for the Self. You are already Self-realized if you become a direct expression of your Self. But you are in bondage if you are an expression of yourself which is lower self or ego.  That’s the thin line separating freedom from bondage. 

Hence live as Self-realized by becoming a direct expression of consciousness and not an expression of your mind. All our problems and suffering are because we are trying to become other than what we are. All talk of Self-realization is also because we have worn a false identity in the form of ego or personality. Our true identity is freedom and if we live in association of our true identity then we are already Self-realized. Drop your fake identity i.e. keep your mind (ego) aside and you will see that you are always THAT. Meditation is a method to transcend ego. Your thought (word) is your individuality....please read the next post

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