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EGO

Ego is constituted by Nature and is at once a mental, vital and physical formation meant to aid in centralising and individualising the outer consciousness and action. When the true being is discovered, the utility of the ego is over and this formation has to disappear - the true being is felt in its place.

Rājasic ego is puffed up with pride and self-esteem or stubbornly asserts itself at every step or else wherever it can. Sāttvic ego is the sense of goodness and virtue. Tāmasic ego is the ego of weakness, self-depreciation, despondency, unbelief.

Egocentric and unegoistic : The egocentric man feels and takes things as they affect him. Does this please me or displease, give me gladness or pain, flatter my pride, vanity, ambition or hurt it, satisfy my desires or thwart them, etc. The unegoistic man does not look at things like that. He looks to see what what is their meaning, how they get into the scheme of things - or else he feels calm and equal, refers everything to the Divine, or if he is a man of action, how they will serve the work that has to be done or the life of the world or the cause he serves, etc.