326 Quotes About Egoism

Ego is not a thing. When you believe ‘I am this…I am this…’; it is all ego. ‘I am Pure Soul’ is the only egoless state.

There is no moksha [ultimate liberation] without complete dissolution of the ego. Place of Origin of the ego itself is karmic bondage. As long as ego exists, there is worldly entanglement. Ego is non-soul and what is more it’s nature is to actively procreate.

The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that ‘I died’. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (never changes). Even Pudgal (the non-Self complex) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.

That which reduces ego is considered knowledge of the Enlightened Ones (Vitraagi Gnan). And the ego that is reduced through conduct and rituals is considered to be according to God’s special directives (agna). But (actually) the ego has increased! That is the very misery!

Understanding is the conduct. “I” tell you not to bring it into conduct. Nothing will be gained from teaching forced conduct. To put something in conduct is egoism. That which comes into understanding, will manifest into conduct without fail.

The Lord says, if you move away from your ego, if you maintain humility (utmost humbleness), then you and I are the same. Otherwise, you and I are separate.

The worldly life exists because of ‘egoism’. Karmic bondage is because of ‘egoism’. If egoism can be stopped in any of the ways, then one can be free (from this worldly life & attain ultimate liberation).

Your life is built on egoism only. How can you get rid of it? You have to tell ‘us’ (the Gnani Purush and the manifested Lord within him) ‘get rid of my egoism’, and ‘we’ will remove it.

You attain a ‘temporary life’ through ‘egoism’ and an ‘eternal life’ without ‘egoism’. ‘Egoism’ is like the string that is wound around a top; it what ‘discharges’.