326 Quotes About Egoism

The nature of pudgal (non-Self body complex, complex of intake and output) is to go down and the nature of the Self is to go higher. The pudgal’s (non-Self body complex’s) downward nature is not caused by it’s heavy weight; it is caused by an increase in egoism. One may be skinny, but his ego can be big enough to stretch all over the world.

One may have knowledge of every subject in the world, but egotistic knowledge goes into intellect, and non-egotistic knowledge goes into Gnan (Absolute Knowledge, Knowledge of Pure Soul).

When circumstantial evidences come together, the mind gets involved in thoughts. The one that has the thoughts is the mind. At that time, the chit (knowledge & vision) goes out, if the work is external, or stays and wanders within, if the work is internal. Intellect gives the decision. Intellect then accepts either the decision of the chit or of the mind and becomes one with it. So then ego endorses it and signs off on it. This is how the parliamentary system (of antahkaran) works.

Egoism is alive because of buddhi (intellect). That is why ‘we’ tell you to become abuddha (free of intellect).

The one who wants to endure the worldly life, he should carry the weapon of the ego, and the one who wants freedom from the worldly life, he should let go of the weapon of ego.

Scolding is the greatest form of egoism. It is foolish egoism. When is scolding useful? If it is done without any prejudice.

There are two things in the world: feeding the ego or breaking it. Everyone’s ego is either being fed or being shattered in this world; nothing else happens apart from these two.

The One who devours (completely destroys) our ego and makes us viraat (divine & huge) is called the viraat-svaroop (divine manifestation). Only before a viraat-svaroop will anyone bow down.

Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he's in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.