Ego Vs Self
What is the difference between Ego and Self?
For this, each one must first ask the question: Who am I? Are you
your name? Are you your body? Are you this physical embodiment? Are you what
you think? Are you what you feel? And all answers are ‘NO’. Are you a mother?
Are you a father? Are you a child? Are you a friend? Are you a foe? Are you man?
Are you woman? Are you young? Are you old? Are you what your religion makes you
believe you are? Again, all answers are ‘NO’. Is this ‘you’? Is this you? Is
this you? (Sir pointed to different parts of the human body) All answers are
‘NO’. Are you what you see? Are you what you hear? Are you what you speak? Are
you what you touch? All answers are ‘NO’. Then WHO ARE YOU? When all that you
have identified yourself with is now revealed to you as ONLY ILLUSION, the
Intellectual Mind struggles to come to terms with this. ‘HOW CAN REALITY BE
ILLUSION?’ the Mind asks. Is this reflection in the mirror not ME? And we answer
‘NO’.
The truth is you have never seen yourself because to see yourself,
with your physical eyes, they would have to be able to see that which is not
tangible. The truth is that you have never spoken, because in order for
you to speak, you would need a sound which the tongue cannot utter. The
truth is that you have never acted, because for you to act, you would
need a ‘will’ that goes beyond the limitation of physical control. And yet you
do not know who you are. The intellectual mind is giving you the answer.
‘I am light’. ‘I am a spark of the Divine’. Now ask yourself truly: if
the intellectual mind tells you ‘you are light’, can you feel ‘light’? Can you
experience ‘light’? The intellectual mind tells you "you are a spark of the
divine" .Can you, sitting here, experience the truth of this statement? It is
only a statement. Just as you have conditioned yourself to believe ‘I am a
man’, I am a father, I am a husband, I belong to this religious denomination, I
am dark, I am tall ’. You are now conditioning your Mind to say ‘I am light ’.
But this statement remains an illusion because the reality has not been
experienced! So what IS this mysterious ‘I’, that I AM? What must I
experience? We can see those questions. But the answers go beyond the words that
you speak and the words that you hear. And therefore you merely repeat, what is
at present an ‘empty statement’ and say that you are ‘A spark of light’. When
the statement itself is ‘empty’, how can the answer be meaningful? What is the
importance of who you are? We will use these words and all words will be
‘empty’, because they will only be accepted by the mind, without being
experienced in their reality and will only lead to a further conditioning your
Mind.
For over three weeks now we have been using words that we hoped you would
understand; to help you to distinguish between EGO and SOUL. And yet we know
that all the words have been ‘empty’.
Child, to answer your question I have to invite you to ‘EXPERIENCE’ that. Each
one is important in a unique, wonderful manner. This uniqueness is ‘trapped’ by
the physicality of the mind and body. This wonder lies dormant waiting to be
‘released’ from the ‘self’ of the physicality and yet we have not even been able
to tell you ‘who you are’. For there are no words. How can you define ‘Light’
when in your mind the opposite of ‘light’ is ‘dark’? How can you define God
when God is a mythical creature living high up in the heavens, to whom you turn
and beg, to whom you pray for forgiveness? How can we define ‘divine’ when all
around you, you experience only human. And so dear one, for your question today
we have no answer.