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==Ahamkara/Ahankara==
The lower self movement of Mind in Nature is in bondage thus able to its past; conceive of the object as the reality and the Inhabitant as limited and determined by the appearances of the higher is lord object. It conceives of the pastobject, not as the present universe in one of its frontal appearances, but as itself a separate existence standing out from the Cosmos and different in being from all the futurerest of it. So the will It conceives similarly of the lower self Inhabitant. This is born the illusion of ''ahankara'' and limited by ''ahankara''ignorance which falsifies all realities. The illusion is called ahaṁkāra, but the will separative ego-sense which makes each being conceive of the higher self is beyond ''ahankara'' and cannot be limited by ititself as an independent personality. <ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/0717/the-needinhabiting-ofgodhead-life-theand-momentaction#p2p13</ref>
Under the conditions of mind, life & body, ahankara is born, the subjective or objective form of consciousness is falsely taken for self-existent being, the body for an independent reality & the ego for an independent personality; the one loses itself in us in its multiplicity & when it recovers its unity, finds it difficult, owing to the nature of mind, to preserve its play of multiplicity. Therefore when we are absorbed in world, we miss God in Himself; when we seek God, we miss Him in the world. Our business is to break down & dissolve the mental ego & get back to our divine unity without losing our power of individual & multiple existence in the universe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/the-entire-purpose-of-yoga#p10</ref>