All the terrible calamities of this world are born of egotism.
Egotism eclipses self-control, destroys virtue, and dissipates equanimity.
The egosense arises in the self
just as movement arises in wind.
The ego-sense is unreal though it appears to be real.
just as movement arises in wind.
The ego-sense is unreal though it appears to be real.
Only when the egosense is thinned out
does this self-knowledge arise.
Self-knowledge is the realization of the unreality of the ego-sense.
does this self-knowledge arise.
Self-knowledge is the realization of the unreality of the ego-sense.
When the egosense is abandoned,
there arises the state of perfect equilibrium.
Be firmly established in egolessness
and remain unpolluted like space.
Remain in the pure, egoless state.
there arises the state of perfect equilibrium.
Be firmly established in egolessness
and remain unpolluted like space.
Remain in the pure, egoless state.