Ego

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. 

Only when the egosense is thinned out
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.