The Ego Doesn’t Exist
by Atman Nityananda
The Ego Doesn’t Exist, according my experience and knowledge is A false concept that circulates among modern Western teachers.
My questions are:
- If the ego doesn’t exist, how can we give up something that doesn’t exist?
- What is the need to give up a non-existent element, and why is it difficult to give up something that doesn’t exist?
- How can we give up the ego through a non-existent ego?
Moreover:
If the ego doesn’t exist, what causes separation, identification, attachments, and conflicts?
What makes us identify with the body and all mental and emotional structures?
What are greed, avarice, anger, hatred, jealousy, lasciviousness, and all other defects if not expressions of the ego itself?
What makes us identify and attach ourselves to our country, religion, objects, and people?
What causes “I-ness” and “my-ness”?
Modern teachers fail to understand the nature of the ego and end up making statements such as “the ego does not exist.”
Of course, the ego is part of the matrix and has a relative or apparent existence, just like everything else (all physical, energetic, and psychological formations) within the matrix or Maya.
The only one that truly exists is Pure Consciousness.
“Truly exists” means self-created, self-conscious, eternal, changeless, deathless, timeless, formless, self-sustained, unmoving, unaffected by anything, and indestructible.
MY BOOKS IN ENGLISH
- Liberation with the Power of Mantra – (ORDER ON AMAZON)
- DIE TO LIVE – (ORDER ON AMAZON)
- Living Non-duality in Practice
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 