life: Be sensitive to life, not ego

Today, there is too much unnecessary talk going on in the world about destroying the ego. This has been picked up from the scriptures. Whenever your personality turns ugly, you call it ego. This is just one more way of passing the buck. When your personality turns ugly, you must see it as you. If you see, ‘I am ugly,’ you will want to do something about it. You would not want to be that way any more.

But we have evolved so many strategies to avoid this. At any moment, whether you are beautiful or ugly, it is you, isn’t it? Keep it that way. Don’t create things that are not there – your ego, your atman, or something else. The moment you create things like, ‘What is beautiful is my atman, what is ugly is my ego,’ no transformation will be possible. If you see that, ‘Whatever I am, that which is beautiful and that which is ugly in me are both me,’ then, what is ugly will naturally start changing.

Today, in the world, we need to bring about simple sense – life sense. Right now, people only have ego sense, no life sense. They are ego sensitive, not life sensitive. When you are ego sensitive, you only see yourself as life, no one else is life. You can trample upon anything and anyone. But if you are life sensitive, everything is life in your experience, so you naturally behave very sensibly with every other life around you. The ego will no longer be a problem if you become life sensitive.