EGO -- WHY WE HOLD ON TO IT, WHY WE GIVE IT UP

EGO -- WHY WE HOLD ON TO IT, WHY WE GIVE IT UP

From insentience comes cognition of one's individuality, one's identity as a being, as a person. Hence, one clings to the ego and can scarce give it up. But as one expands in consciousness through experience, achievement, excellence and a greater renunciation of all such vanity towards the end of evolution, one casts off the ego like so much dross of no intrinsic value. Then one proceeds towards perfection of the Absolute Being that is one's status in phenomenal dissolution. 

Written by Sugata Bose