object:10.21 - Short Notes - 4- Ego
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
3) Emptying and Replenishment 5) Consciousness and Dimensions of View
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part TenShort Notes4) Ego
4) Ego
To renounce is a greater delight than to enjoy.
To give is a greater joy than to take.
To love is a greater ravishment than to be loved.
In one it is the ego, man's self-centredness that limits, dilutes, and even perverts his happiness. In the other, it is precisely the egolessness that brings the pure felicity. For ego is hunger, hunger that is death, says the Upanishad.
It is the ego, the personal shift that cuts the Infinite, obscures the consciousness which otherwise in its natural condition is always the supreme bliss and beatitude.
It is the ego that turns reality into unreality, light into darkness, immortality into death.
And whatever the interim necessity and utility of the ego, originally and also ultimately it has no space or standing. For originally and ultimately and absolutely, it is the Divine that exists in and through the Divine, moves in and through the Divine to the Divine.
It is the Divine that knows the Divine through the Divine.
It is the Divine that dynamises the Divine through the Divine.
It is the Divine that enjoys, loves the Divine through theDivine.
The Vedic Rishis declared the same truth, in their own language and imagery when they said "The sacrifice is made a sacrifice through the sacrifice".
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