🔶 Is ego an entity, a process, or just a belief?
by Atman Nityananda
The ego is not a belief. It is a real psychological element, not imagined or conceptual. It is composed of the three gunas — tamas (inertia), rajas (desire and activity), and sattva (illumination and subtlety).
These are the fundamental qualities of nature (Prakriti), and the ego is formed through the combination of these qualities.
It is not a fixed entity or an abstract process, but a subtle energetic structure in the psyche that becomes the basis for false identity.
The ego and especially its lower rajasotamasic aspect expresses itself through identification with form, thought, role, and desire. It is not who we truly are, but it is as real a force within the human mind.
🔶 There are two aspects of the ego:
- The lower ego is predominantly tamasic and rajasic, and it is this aspect that creates false identification with the body, thoughts, emotions, memories, roles, and desires. It binds us to suffering, ignorance, and unconscious reactivity.
- The higher ego or sattvic ego is the aspect that maintains the sense of individuality without false identification. It allows the soul to function in the world as an apparent person but without confusion. It does not bind — it becomes a tool for the soul (Being consciousness). However, the Sartvic ego, contaminated by the rajas and tamas gunas, also binds us through attachment to knowledge, enjoyment, and happiness.
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