326 Quotes About Egoism

I did this’, this gives rise to egoism. ‘This is mine’, it gives rise to attachment (mamta).

Karmic bondage is built on egoism. Other than egoism, binding karma is not dependent on any other action. I-ness (vikalp) and my-ness (sankalp) are based on egoism and that is karmic bondage. In whatever the ego exists, that is its bondage.

Antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is exactly like a parliament. In that ego is the president, intellect is the prime minister, chit is the foreign department, and mind is the home department.

Ego does not experience happiness or misery. It does not enjoy sex either. It is just the egoism it does that, ‘I enjoyed sex!’.

Ego has given rise to the bhedbuddhi (divisive intellect) within the Self (Soul). That is the impediment of it.

All this entrapment is due to the impediment called the egoism. Because of the hook of ‘egoism’, when the engine moves, it also pulls all the coaches.

However long one travels in the wrong direction in the worldly lie, that much of it is egoism. And as that egoism dissolves, one will experience eternal bliss. The Egoism of Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is gone, and therefore He constantly experiences eternal bliss. He experiences that bliss even when someone swears at him. That is when you feel, ‘Wow! What kind of bliss this is!

The ultimate awareness is the one when no body in the world is seen faulty.

Acting egotistically as ‘I am this body’, with no consciousness of the self, is karma. But anything done ‘dramatically, as the Knower-Seer, while remaining as the Self, is not karma.