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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
find reality is simple and graspable when we look inside what remains complex and mystery is the structure of our mind and the odd number of ways that lower mind sneaks in to obscure and corrupt our natural insight and universal love.
It is one of the dogmas that seem to attract almost all to live a life of unalloyed love is our ego. Ego structurally is nothing but our inner thoughts, fears, likes, desires, dislikes and it is what may be called as our face to the world. It is an essential part of our being a human being. It is our everyday conscious thinking apparatus or structure. It is ever changing and never static. It grants for its self a certain amount of illusive identity. But reality permits only plurality and never separate entity. To feel someone or thing as separate is a dogma that appears to grant some security however imaginary and illusive that it may be.
It is true that but for doing things competitively humanity would be still at the Stone Age. But continuing to live with competition at the needless cost of peace and happiness would be playing cricket after we won the game in the pavilion. Selfishness and Ego are synonyms and they are a barrier to spiritual growth which demands compassion and love to be the matrix of living. It is
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