Tuesday, January 17, 2017

THE VITAL EGO IS THE GREATEST OBSTACLE OF SELF-TRANSFORMATION ~ Atman Nityananda


 
THE VITAL EGO IS THE GREATEST OBSTACLE OF SELF-TRANSFORMATION & SELF-REALIZATION 

The majority of spiritual seekers fail to realize their true nature and be united with God because they cannot control their mind; and they cannot control their mind because they cannot overcome and dissolve the vital ego.

The vital ego assumes the form of vital-emotional conditioning such as likes-dislikes, passions, delusions, desires , fears, arrogance, vanity, anger, resentment, laziness, stupidity, etc..

 The vital ego is unconscious, chaotic, captious, obstinate, compulsive, reactive as well as it is unwilling to cooperate with us and resists forcefully our efforts to control our mind, body and senses and live a conscious virtuous life. The vital ego clouds our reason, discernment and clear (without distortion) perception and thus impedes us to be aware of the its play and also to recognize our true nature. 

That's why it is required great patience, tenacity, perseverance, forbearance, courage, steady determination, sincerity and diligent incessant practice in order to dissolve it.

Most seekers fail to dissolve the vital ego because they lack of patience, courage and determination to face bravely the resistance and the attacks of their vital ego.

Spirituality it is not always an easy happy journey but a difficult battle between the lower forces of nature and the higher discriminative self. It is a battle between the higher sattvic mind and lower rajasotamsic vital mind.

Who has defeated his vital ego is a true hero because conquered his lower nature and has become a king of his own psychological kingdom. After realization the nature serves the yogi, since the only purpose of nature is to serve the Spirit and the realized yogi is one with the universal Spirit.

Read about vital ego :