ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF EGO Part I
by Nityananda Atman
Ego is the factor that separates man from Divine consciousness (God) and
all creation. It is the factor that apparently covers our true nature and makes
us suffer. Our real identity is
Consciousness but since in our psych has been developed the ego we
experience that we are the physical body; that we are a limited body-mind
entity, separate from life and God.
1.
Consciousness – Soul : Being or Existence - Consciousness or awareness - Bliss
(satchitananda).
2.
The causal body : The veil of ignorance, seeds of samskaras and
vasanas, 3 modes of happiness (priya- moda- pramoda).
3.
Mind:
· Higher intellect (Intelligence): Decides, Cognizes, Reasons, Discerns between the real
and the unreal, the Self and the non-Self. It is related also with intuition,
creativity, perception of reality
· Lower intellect: Decides, Cognises, Reasons, discerns but in a lower
way, because is distorted by the ego and its tendencies
· Thinking mind
· Emotional mind
· Sensory mind
· Motor mind
·
Instinctive mind
·
Subconscious mind: memory,
· Ego : The
sense of individuality; Has two aspects:
The gross ‘Ego’ - the rajasotamasic ego (the desire soul): the sense “the body is me”. -- The subtle ‘Ego’.
- The sattvic ego: Give us the sense of individuality. Enable a sage to
function in this physical plane.
·
3. Vital energy or prana:
·
Psychic prana
·
Physical prana
The five pranas: Prana,
Apana, Udana, Samana, Vyana
4. Sexual energy
5. Senses: 5 senses of cognition and 5 senses of
action
6. Physical body
The three Doshas:
Pitta, Kapha, Vata
Our identity is
consciousness and all the rest, intellect, mind etc. are only instruments of consciousness. We took birth in a human form to realize
ourselves as the eternal light of consciousness and express in the matter the
divine qualities of love, peace and wisdom. Due to ego we have forgotten our purpose engaging
ourselves only in material purposes seeking mostly to derive pleasure through
sensual experiences.
The illusory ego which has developed
in our psych makes the impossible happen. Ego makes the body appear as real and
the consciousness which is the eternal reality and the substratum of all
phenomena as to be not existent at all.
Ego clouds our intellect and its capacity to discriminate between the true
and the false creating in us the illusion that the short lived mortal body is
real, sentient and self-existent, while in reality body is insentient, unreal
and depended on consciousness which is eternal, uncaused and self-existent.
The ego makes us to forget our true identity with consciousness and
identify with body and mind taking them as our self. Ego makes us sensing and believing that we are
the body which has a mind to think and a heart to feel.
Furthermore the ego has made us believe that we are the ego itself. As soon as we believe that we
are the ego, The ego undisturbed uses all instruments from intellect down to
the physical body for its superficial sensual gratifications. The ego-virus for
the sake of pleasure, power, possessions etc. misuses and overuses all
instruments (intellect, mind body, etc.) creating unbalances, defects and
suffering both physically and psychologically. Earthlings
nowadays, due to this parasite of ego, experience enormous suffering
individually and collectively.
What really is this ego that takes many forms and creates many delusions
and suffering almost in everyone on this planet earth? How this ego has been created and what is its
nature?
Most of the teachers and teachings refer to Ego as the ‘I’ thought or
the sense ‘I am the body ‘. Some western
teachers refer to Ego as the identification with thoughts.
According my own point of view which is based on self-enquiry, self-observation and the study of great masters (among them Swamii Sivananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sri NIjargadatta, Sri Ramana Maharshi and others as well as some western teachers and psychologists), the ‘I’ thought and the sense ‘I am the body' are only two of the expressions of ego and not the ego itself.
1. Is ego the ’I’ thought’?
Before we examine if the ego is the
‘I’ thought let’s see first what thoughts are. Thoughts are symbols of objects,
happenings, situations, perceptions, sensations, emotions etc. For example the thought
sea is only the symbol of what we call sea. The thought fear is the symbol of
what we feel in our body as fear. The thought tiger is the symbol of this
specific animal. Of course in every language the thought or word about the same
object is different. For example the sea
in English, is called mar in Spanish, thalassa (Θάλασσα) in Greek.
So long as thoughts are only symbols
about something, it makes clear that they are not the very thing that they represent.
For example the thought or word sea is not the sea itself.
The same applies for the ‘I’ thought
which is only the symbol of what this thought represents, viz. the ego.
The fact that the thought ‘I’ is a
symbol of the ego, makes obvious that the thought ‘I’ is not the ego itself.
Ego is something which is represented by the ‘I’ thought.
Ego is that
something that creates in everyone the strong sense that I am an individual
confined in the body, or simply the body is ‘me’. When we speak or entertain in
our minds the thought ‘I’ we are referring to this sense created by the ego.
(There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages
in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than
1,000 speakers.)
The ‘I’ is the English
world for the ego, in Greek is ‘Εγώ’, in French is ‘je’, in Spanish is ‘Yo’ etc. The sense of ego is the
same in all men regardless of their nationality or the language they speak. But
the words that symbolize the ego are different. This make obvious that the
thought is not the ego but only a symbol that is associated with the sense of
ego.
The ego is operating in every man continuously
during the day in various ways. The Ego takes many forms such as desires, like-dislike,
anxiety, fear, stress, attraction-repulsion, anger, irritability, impatient,
discontentment, aggressiveness, self assertiveness etc. But the thought ‘I’
appears relatively few times in the mind. From this also becomes obvious that the ‘I’
thought is only an expression of Ego in the thinking mind and is not the ego
itself.
If the ‘I’ thought which IS the main
one that is connected with the ego is not the ego then neither the other thoughts
can be the Ego.
Thoughts are just thoughts; they are
neither the Ego nor something that create the Ego. In reality thoughts are used
by the ego or are linked with the ego but they are not the ego itself.
Of course thoughts can be used by the
pure intellect or consciousness in a very positive way. On the contrary the ego
uses the thoughts and thinking faculty of the mind for its own superficial
selfish purposes.
Conclusion: The ‘I’ thought is
only the expression of the ego in the thinking mind, it is not the ego itself.
If
the ‘I’ thought is not the ego, then what ego is?
The
ego is a mass of energy which has been crystallized in our energy field and in our mind. The sense ‘I am an individual’, ‘I am the
body’, is the strongest expression of
this ego-energy.
This sense of
‘Iness” is experienced in the heart level as a feeling, on the chest and face
as a sense, in the thinking mind (Manas) as the ‘I’ thought and in the
intellect (buddhi) as the conviction or belief ‘the body is me’.
Conclusion: The
ego is a mass of energy which is crystallized in our energy field and in our mind.
Of course the Ego takes many forms or
expressions such as I am the doer, I am the enjoyer, I am the perceiver, I am the thinker, I am the feeler, desires, like-dislike, anxiety, fear, stress,
attraction-repulsion, anger, irritability, impatient, discontentment,
aggressiveness, self assertiveness etc. which are only modifications or forms of the
ego-energy.
Is the ego the identification with thoughts?
When there is identification there
must be two factors involved, the subject and the object of identification. When
we say that ego is the identification with thoughts we are not mention what identifies
with thoughts.
So the idea that identification with
thoughts is the ego cannot be accepted as true because does not make reference
to the very thing that identifies with thoughts.
The fact is that the ego is what identifies with thoughts. Ego identifies with thoughts in order to experience emotions, pleasure and pain and direct the mind and attention towards sensory objects.
The fact is that the ego is what identifies with thoughts. Ego identifies with thoughts in order to experience emotions, pleasure and pain and direct the mind and attention towards sensory objects.
Conclusion: The ego is not the
identification with thoughts but the ego is what identifies with thoughts
Let’s examine little more the nature of
thoughts. Thoughts are special formations of energy. Thoughts are mental formations
activated by the psychic prana (life energy). Most of thoughts are images of
perception, sounds or words. Everything we experience through senses and especially
the words which we hear or read create an impression in the mind, a
thought-form. Thoughts by themselves are not positive or negative, but they are
stored in the memory associated with some vital or emotional formation,
positive or negative.
Thoughts are neutral as many other things in
nature, for example like fire. Fire is not good neither bad, but when fire is
in proper place becomes a positive factor -for example we can use fire to cook,
to create heating etc.. When the fire destroys our home, the forests etc.
becomes a negative factor.
Similarly thoughts can take a
negative or a positive potential. They assume a positive or negative state
because they are associated with positive or negative vibrations of the vital and
emotions. The quality of thoughts is depended also on the level of our
consciousness.
A quote about the vibrations
of thoughts by Sri Aurobindo
First of
all, these thought-waves, thought-seeds or thought-forms or whatever they are,
are of different values and come from different planes of consciousness. The same thought-substance can take
higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness
through which the thoughts come in (e.g., thinking mind, vital mind, physical
mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and
pushes them into one man or another.
Also, there is a mind-energy actual or
potential in each which differs and this mind-energy in its recipience of the
thought can be luminous or obscure, sattvic*, rajasic* or tamasic* with
consequences that vary in each case.
There is conscious thinking guided by our will
and compulsive thinking. The compulsive thinking is activated by the egoic
tendencies, desires, lust, likes-dislikes, emotions which make thoughts revolve
compulsively and incessantly in our mind. This compulsive thinking clounds our
reason and discernment and make the mind upset, agitated and frustrated. This
distorted state of mind intensifies much more the emotional and vital turmoil. Thus
a vicious circle is formatted between mind and emotional-vital formations. In this
condition our energy at all levels is contracted and dense and we experience
this as suffering. Furthermore this negative state create unbalances to the physical
pranas and
doshas creating more suffering and diseases.
Of course an emotion or a desire can
be initially activated by a single thought or a sensation but after that, the
compulsive stream of thinking is caused and sustained by the power of emotion
or the impulse of desire. If emotions, passion or desires were absent the
thinking process would dissolve very easily, if it arises at all.
The enslaving chains of samskaras (impressions)
Mind exercises its
suzerainty through Samskaras (impressions). From Samskaras emanate
Vasanas (tendencies) like swarms of locusts. From Vasana flows the stream of
desire and from enjoyment of objects of desires arises internal craving
(intense longing). Internal craving is very powerful. The Samskaras are
imbedded in the mind, in the Casual body (Karana Sarira). There arises a memory
of pleasure in the mind. Then the mind thinks of objects. Maya has her powerful
seat in the imagination. There comes attachment. The mind plans and schemes.
You are swayed by the passions. You exert yourself physically to possess those
objects and enjoy them. In your efforts, you favour some and disfavor others
through like- dislike or attraction-repulsion (Raga and Dvesha). You will have
to enjoy the fruits of your virtuous and vicious actions. Through this
six-spoked wheel of Raga and Dvesha, virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, this
Samsaric wheel of birth and death moves on without stopping from beginningless
time.
Desire
and thought
An action implies a desire which prompted it and a
thought which shaped it. Each act is a link in an endless chain of causes and
effects, each effect becoming a cause and each cause having been and effect;
and each link in the endless chain is welded out of three component, desire,
thought and activity. A desire stimulates a thought; a thought embodies itself
in an act.
Desire
Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Sexual
desire, vulgar attraction for the opposite sex, is the greatest impurity. This
causes the real bondage.
~ Swami Sivananda
Thoughts can be used by the Ego or
by intelligence and consciousness. Thoughts can be activated by the Egoic
desires, negative emotions or by love, compassion, creativity, inspiration,
intuition, aspiration etc.
When thoughts are activated by love,
compassion and creativity they have a positive potential etc. This kind of
thinking creates vibrations of peace, happiness, prosperity etc.
Thoughts are creative but they are
actualized when will, intention, desire or emotions are associated with them. Thought
is male and emotion female. When we connect the thought with emotion we create
inner and outer reality. And especially when this union, of thought and feeling
happens in a pure, calm and one pointed-mind and we are in touch with our
consciousness, thought can create miracles. (download Book Thought power)
We can use thoughts to create
positive situations (inner or external) or negative ones. It depends of our level
of consciousness in which way we use our mental faculties. The form that takes
the external reality, what we call “World” depends only in the thoughts and
feelings that we entertain in our psych.
Knowing all these above I want to declare
again that thoughts are only thoughts. They are not the Ego. Thoughts can be
empowered by consciousness and can be positive or negative due to association
with the three gunas, vital formations and emotions (negative or positive).
Conclusion: Thoughts by themselves are not the ego.
Finally another point that helps us to understand that thoughts are not the Ego, is the sages.Many great sages have given us a many sacred teachings. All these teachings are thoughts expressed through speech and writing. The sages have used thoughts to express the wisdom and help others. The sages have not Ego, but they also entertain thoughts. The fact that the thoughts of sages are charged by the power of the pure consciousness that shines in them give them the power to elevate the minds of disciples and the ability to reveal in them the truth. Right thought, word and deed are the spontaneous expression of sages. Thus becomes clear that thoughts have nothing to do with Ego.
What is identified with thoughts?
Let examine now what can be this ‘something’
that it is identified with thoughts.
This ‘something’ cannot be a thought, because the
mind can entertain only one thought at a time. Thoughts appear in the mind one
after one in a sequence. Therefore one thought cannot identify with another
one.
Let see
what else could be.
A man is composition of body- energy - mind-
intellect and consciousness.
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Consciousness
cannot be what is identified with thoughts because is unattached and beyond the
manifested realms.
·
Body
is not the agent that identifies with thoughts. The fact that someone during
daydreaming may not be aware of his body while is identified with thoughts,
makes clear that what is identified with thoughts is not the body. Similarly in
dream sleep state we have thoughts but we are not aware of the body. So becomes
evident that the body is not what identifies with thoughts.
·
Mind
and intellect cannot also be. Mind is the instrument that has the ability to create
the thinking process and this thinking process occur also to the sages. Moreover
the thinking process cannot identify with itself. The intellect is an instrument
and functions as cognition, understanding, discrimination and reasoning therefore it cannot be the agent of identification with the thoughts.
If the mind
and intellect were the agent of identification with thoughts, then that could
happen also to the liberated sages. The sages have a mind and intellect but they
are not indentified with the thoughts.
So there must be ‘something’ else that is
identified with thoughts. This mysterious
‘something’ is this phantom of ego which like a virus from time immemorial has
occupied our psych.
Ego which is a mass of energy and different
from thoughts, mind and intellect is that ‘something’ which is identified with
thoughts in order to keep the intellect and awareness in contact with senses objects,
so as to entertain pleasures, passions, emotions, feelings, sensations etc..
Ego is the ‘x’ factor that creates many other
identifications and illusions in our psych for its own shake.
Conclusion: The ego is WHAT
identifies with thoughts.
Is ego the sense ‘I am the body’?
The sense ‘I am the body’ is the
main illusion that the ego causes, therefore we could say that Ego is the solid
sense ‘I am the body’ or more accurate to say ‘the body is ‘Me’. But in reality
the sense ‘the body is ‘Me’ is only one of the many identifications and
illusions that the ego creates.
What is the nature of this phantom
of ego? To have a better understanding about
the nature of Ego I will give you first an analogy with water, keeping in mind
that analogies are limited.
The
water is a liquid, which can take various forms. The water can take the form of
snow, cloud, ice, rain, steam, humidity etc. All these forms appear different
but they are only water.
But what is water itself? It is H2O, the union
of 2 atoms of hydrogen with one of oxygen.
Similarly the ego is a mass of energy which takes various forms. Ego takes the form of lust, desire, pleasure,
the sense ‘the body is Me’, ‘I am the enjoyer’, ‘I am the doer’ etc. All
various psychological qualities, such as anger, fear, depression, greed,
pleasure etc. are also formations or modifications of the ego.
Conclusion: The Ego is a mass
of energy which assumes various forms.
The sense “the body is Me” and desire for pleasure are
the most fundamental forms of ego
The ego is ONE but takes various forms.
That’s why in ancient Greek mythology the two symbols that represented the Ego were, Lernaean Hydra and Medusa. Lernaean Hydra was a snake with many heads and Medusa was a woman who instead of hairs on her head had many snakes.
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What is the very nature of this energy of ego?
It is modified sexual energy intermixed with
prana and mental substance. The pleasure created by sexual energy in sexual
union with orgasm is crystallized in our psych as lust and passion and the
sense the ‘body is me’.
Lust in its turn modifies
itself and takes the form of desire, like-dislike and all negative aspects of
ego such as anger, fear, depression, greed, attachment, aggressiveness,
impatiens, irritability and all innumerable modifications.
The table below show how the ego started from sexual fall and the basic
forms of ego.
A similar opinion about how
the ‘I’ is shaped express Sri Nijargadatta in his talks (book “I AmThat” download)). He says that the memory of pleasure and pain creates the illusory ‘I’ which
uses the body, senses and mind for its gratification.
In reality the first cause
of ‘I’ is pleasure. The psychological pain, better suffering is only a modification of
pleasure. The suffering which is mainly created by the ego strengthens the illusory sense of ‘Iness’.
Nijargadatta:
“The
problem arises only when the memory of past pains and pleasures -- which are
essential to all organic life -- remains as a reflex, dominating behaviour.
This reflex takes the shape of 'I' and uses the body and the mind for its
purposes, which are invariably in search for pleasure or flight from pain.”
The ego
has been crystallized in the psych of human beings from the symbolic time of
Adam and Eva thousands years ago and through the aeons has become more
complicated and strong.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Samael Aun Weor and George
Ivanovich Gurdieff mention in their books
that sexual behavior was the cause of the development of ego.
Below an extract of a commentary on Ch.1.1 of BHAGAVAD GITA by Paramahansa
Yogananda
Man and woman, instead of seeking
emancipation in God through soul unity, sought satisfaction through the flesh.
The seed of the original error of “Adam
and Eve” remains in all human beings as the first temptation of the flesh
against the immaculate laws of Spirit (“touch not the tree in the center of
the garden!”). Each individual since
that dim era has had to engage his soul in battle with the cosmically present
temptation of sex. The creator in man has become a dictatorial creature.
The sex impulse is the single most
physically magnetic power that pulls the life and consciousness down from
Spirit in the higher centers in the brain, out through the coccygeal center
into matter and body consciousness. The beginner in yoga meditation
experiences all too definitely how grounded he is by the stubborn attachment of
his life and energy to the body, sometimes without realizing that it is his uncontrolled thoughts and
acts of sex that are primarily responsible for his earthbound condition.”
Below an extract of MAGIC RUNES (Chapter 29) THE ORIGIN OF THE PLURALIZED
“I” by Samael Aun Weor
I also
knew the last times of the third Root Race. I lived in that epoch, which is
cited in Genesis as being that ancient age in which Adam and Eve were cast out
of Eden.
In those
times, humanity had already divided themselves into opposite sexes. The sexual act
was then a sacrament which was only performed inside of the temples.
In
certain lunar epochs, the Lemurian tribes were performing long travels. They
were
departing
on pilgrimages towards the holy places, with the purpose of multiplying the
specie (let us recall our honeymoon trips).
We, all
the Lemurians, were children born from will power and yoga. Maithuna (sexual tantra: sexual union
without orgasm) was what we performed during the copulation, and no one was
committing the error of ejaculating the entity of semen.
The
human seed always passed into the womb without the spilling of semen being
necessary.
The multiple combinations of this infinite substance are marvelous.
The king
and queen monarchs were sexually united before the very altar of the temple, and
the multitudes were performing the copulation inside the sacred precinct and in
the rocky patios filled with mysterious hieroglyphics.
The holy
Gods were wisely directing those mystical ceremonies, which were
indispensable
for the reproduction of the human specie. No one was thinking in
perversity,
since the pluralized ‘I’ was not born yet.
I was
living in the country with my tribe, far away from those walled cyclopean
cities.
We were abiding
in a big cabin, cottage or hut. Close to our rounded palm roofed
residence,
I remember with entire clarity that there was a military base where the
warriors of our tribe were meeting.
It happened that on a certain
night, all of us, fascinated by a strange Luciferic power,
resolved to perform the sexual
act out of the temple. Thus, we, each of the couples
delivered ourselves to lust.
Next
day, in the morning, as if nothing had happened, we had the daring, the shame,
the insolence, the impudence to present ourselves as usual in the temple.
However, something unexpected and terrible happened.
All of
us saw a God of Justice, a great Master, dressed with a day-breaking and
immaculate
sacerdotal vesture. With a flaming sword which he was turning in every way to
threaten us, he said,: “Get out, you
unworthy!” It is clear that we then fled terrorized.
Obviously,
this event was repeated in all the corners of the enormous continent Mu. This
is how the humanity Adam- Eve was cast out from the Garden of Eden. Following
this event, which is registered in the Genesis of all religions, horrifying epilogues
were occurring. Millions of human
creatures were developing the abominable Kundartiguador organ when they started
to mix Magic with fornication...
Below an extract of BEELZEBUB’S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON (download) by
George Ivanovich Gurdieff
In
another point George Ivanovich Gurdieff says:
"Before
continuing to relate how all this occurred, I must tell you in a little more detail about that sacred substance
which is the final result of the evolving transformations of every kind of
being-food and is formed in the presence of every being without distinction
of 'brain system ' This sacred
substance, elaborated in the presence of beings of every kind, is almost
everywhere called 'exioëhary,' but your favorites on the planet Earth call it
'sperm.
"Through
the all-gracious foresight and command of our Common Father Creator and
according to the actualization of Great Nature, this sacred substance arises in
the presence of all beings, without distinction of brain system or exterior
coating, in order that by its means they may consciously or automatically
fulfill that part of their being-duty which consists in the continuation of
their species. But in the presence of
three-brained beings it also arises in order that they may consciously
transform it for coating their higher being-bodies for their own being.
"Before
the second transapalnian perturbation there, which the contemporary
three-brained beings refer to as the 'loss of the continent of Atlantis,' in
the period when various consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer had already begun to be crystallized in their
presence, a being-impulse was gradually formed in them which later became
predominant.
"This impulse
is now called 'pleasure', and in order to satisfy it they were already beginning
to exist in a manner unbecoming to three-centered beings, that is to say, most
of them gradually began to remove this sacred being-substance from themselves
for the satisfaction of this impulse alone.
"Well, my boy, from then on most of the three-brained beings of the
planet Earth were not content to carry out the process of the removal of this
substance, which is continuously elaborated in them, only at those periods normally established by Great Nature for beings
in accordance with their organization, for the purpose of the continuation of
their species
Owing to this, and also to the fact that most of them had ceased to
utilize this substance consciously for coating their higher being-bodies, it
came about that when they did not remove it from themselves in ways that by
then had become mechanical, they naturally experienced a sensation called
'sirklinimana,' a state they describe as 'feeling out of sorts,' and which is
invariably accompanied by what is called 'mechanical suffering.
Extract
from book "Practice of Brahmacharya"(download) by Swami Sivananda“
Desire
in the mind is the real impurity. Sexual desire, vulgar attraction for the
opposite sex, is the greatest impurity. This causes the real bondage.”
How the ego has been created?
Ego has been created by the externalization of sexual energy due to sexual union with orgasm. When sexual energy is externalized then, the prana, the mind and the awareness flow outward towards the physical body and the sense objects. This way identification with the body (the sense the body is ‘me’) and the sense objects (‘Mineness’) takes place.
Ego has been created by the externalization of sexual energy due to sexual union with orgasm. When sexual energy is externalized then, the prana, the mind and the awareness flow outward towards the physical body and the sense objects. This way identification with the body (the sense the body is ‘me’) and the sense objects (‘Mineness’) takes place.
The pleasure that the mind experiences due to
orgasm becomes lust and passion that are imprinted and accumulated in the
energy body and in the mind. The ego which basically is made of pleasure and
lust demands to experience the pleasure more strongly after every pleasurable
experience. Thus desire is developed which gradually from desire (desire is lust to possess an object and have pleasure) for sex modifies as desire for eating and drinking, desire for fame, power etc.
Conclusion: The ego has been
created by modification of sexual energy
The
development of the ego had as a consequence the disorientation of the
intellect which became more and more clouded. Thus the intellect instead
of reflecting the consciousness and be an instrument of the divine will
has became the servant of the ego which seeks pleasures in the illusory
sense objects. Gradually the side effects of pleasure and desire have
been developed. These are innumerable but the main are the anger, fear,
aggressiveness, separation, sadness, sorrow, depression, selfishness,
irritability, etc.
Birth
after birth, generation after generation the ego gradually modifies in
innumerable ways and we can see today how much the ego has become
complicated after thousands of years of its development. The majority of
earthlings nowadays are occupied by this virus of ego. They have become
problematic insane entities who create great amount of suffering for
themselves and their fellows. Collectively the ego becomes more insane
and creates wars, violence, famine, environment pollution, exploitation
of women, of animals etc…
- Gurdieff and Samael Aun Weor have also said that Kundabuffer or Kundarticuador was also the factor which together with the sexual degeneration caused the development of ego.
TECHNIQUE FOR DISSOLVING THE “I” by Samael Aun Weor
..Thus,
the subconsciousness is the same Ego or the Psychological ‘I’, that is rooted
in the evil consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ.
The Most
Saintly Ashiata Shiemash fought very hard in order to take the evil
consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ out from humanity. The Holy Lama in
Tibet also suffered very much in order to save humanity from the horrifying
consequences of the mentioned fatal organ.
Buddha,
Jesus, Moses and other Masters passed through much bitterness in order to liberate
humanity from the disastrous consequences
of the Kundartiguador Organ…
BEELZEBUB’S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON (download) by George Ivanovich Gurdieff
"The
sacred members of the Most High Commission then reasoned that if this
mechanical instinct in the biped three-brained beings of that planet were to
develop toward the attainment of Objective Reason, as usually occurs everywhere
among three-brained beings, it might possibly happen that they would
prematurely comprehend the reason for their presence on that planet and would
then make a good deal of trouble; it might happen that once they understood the
reason for their arising, namely, that by their existence they should maintain
the detached fragments of their planet, and became convinced of their slavery
to circumstances utterly foreign to them, they would refuse to continue this
existence of theirs and on principle destroy themselves.
"So,
my boy, in view of this, the Most High Commission decided, among other things,
to implant provisionally in the common presence of the three-brained beings
there a special organ with properties that, first, would make them perceive
reality 'upside down' and, second, would cause every repeated impression from
the outside to crystallize in them data that engender factors for evoking
sensations of 'pleasure' and 'enjoyment.'
"Then,
with the help of the Universal Arch-Chemist-Physicist, the Angel Looisos, a
member of this Most High Commission, they made a 'something' grow in the
three-brained beings there, in a special way at the base of their spinal column
at the root of their tail—for at that time they still had a tail, and that part
of their common presence still kept its normal aspect, expressing the 'fullness
of their being-significance'—a 'something' that fostered the arising in them of
the properties I just mentioned.
"And this 'something' they then for the
first time called the 'organ kundabuffer '
"Having made this organ grow in the
presence of the three-brained beings and having made sure that it would work,
the Most High Commission of Sacred Individuals, headed by the Archangel Sakaki,
returned to the Center, reassured and with clear conscience, while on the
planet Earth, which has taken your fancy, the action of this ingenious and
astonishing invention began to flourish from the very first day, as the wise
Mullah Nasr Eddin would say, like 'the trumpets of Jericho.'
Sexual energy is the primordial and most powerful energy of the universe, and it is the only one that has the power to create at all levels.
Everything in this universe is modifications of
this primordial energy. All physical and
psychic phenomena are created by the Divine sexual Shakti.
Be aware that the physical body is created by
two sexual cells, one spermatozoon and one ovum. These two sexual cells are united
and modified to all other cells and organs of the body. Similarly all
psychological features, positive and negative ones, are modifications of sexual
energy.
"This creative potential, creative power, is present throughout the botanical and animal kingdoms. It is this alone that manifests as all the different forces in the individual human being—the power of acting, the power of thinking, the ability to see, hear, smell, taste, to digest, to breathe—everything. And it is this that is equally present in both sexes as the sex energy. Therefore,this being the key to life, one can imagine its importance, and one can also imagine its precious quality."
~Swami Chitananda
That’s why most of spiritual paths give great importance to the transformation of sexual energy. Some paths like Tantra yoga or hatha yoga aim with very specific practices to transform the sexual energy and activate the shakti-kundalini (download book). Sexual energy wisely utilized can transform a man to God. False use of it can create the egoic qualities in man and transform him even to a demon.
It is not a coincidence that the sexual degeneration we see today all over the world and the growth of ego go together.
FREEDOM from DESIRE the origin of ego
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