Issue No. 213 • February 22, 2004
Editor: Mr. Pruthviraj Purushottam Hajare

Articles

Messages to Seekers

Need For Spirituality

Saints’ Blessings
to the Sanatan

Clarification of Doubts

Did You Know?

Practical Guidance

Spiritual Practice for Awakening Spiritual Emotion

Children's Corner

 Activities Worldwide

Religious Festivals

Implied Meanings

Spiritual Practice for Destroying Ego

Spiritual Experiences

Experiment of the
Subtle Dimension

Saints' Quotes
Losses incurred due to ego and the importance
of dissolving ego in an average person


     In the last Issue (212), we discussed the losses due to ego and the importance of dissolving ego to in average person. In this issue, we will discuss these losses and the importance of dissolving ego further

Losses incurred due to ego and the importance of dissolving ego in an average person:

Inability to experience happiness in the true sense due to ego: Even ordinary happiness cannot be experienced without sacrificing ego. For example, one will never be able to enjoy sexual pleasure if during intercourse, one remembers that one is a well-known professor, a wealthy man or someone great. One can enjoy sexual pleasure or any worldly pleasure in the true sense only if one forgets about one’s status or accomplishments.
Mission undertaken with ego is destroyed with the passage of time: 'A task performed by harboring ego is burned to ashes with the passage of time.

    Time destroys it essence
    A Sanskrut proverb says that ‘time destroys its very essence'. Ancient Indian sages did not mention Their names in the Vedas, since They had no desire for name or fame. Indian sculptors too, did not engrave their names on their sculptures. Hence, the Vedas are eternal and the sculptures immortal.’
 
- Reference: Sanskruti Pujan.
Effect of the in-charge’s ego on a collective mission: The ego of the person in-charge of an organization can pose an obstacle in its collective mission for society. His ego can hamper proper decision-making and action according to the decisions. Consequently, the efficiency of the organization’s collective mission for society is reduced.

     In the next Issue, we will discuss various losses due to ego and the importance of dissolving ego in a seeker.


- Based on the Sanatan's publication,
Spiritual Practice for Destroying Ego,
compiled by H.H. Dr. Jayant Athavale and Mrs. Anjali Mukul Gadgil.

     [The names of the compilers are given in the above holy text merely to facilitate communication.
- Editor.]

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