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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The vedas acknowledge divine karma as the origin of all creation, preservation, and destruction. However, since God does not have desires, unlike humans, he is not constrained by them. In the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1), we discover that karma is one of the three main causes of diversity, alongside name and form. The variety in names is a result of speech, and the variety in forms is a result of the eye, while the mind and body are the sources for the variety in actions. For every action, the body serves as the source, the controller, or the lord.  Within the body, the mind, speech, breath, organs of action, and organs of perception are regarded as the primary deities who receive sustenance from the body and carry out their respective functions. Nevertheless, we cannot solely depend on them to combat the impurities and the malevolent forces that can infiltrate our body, as they are susceptible to evil and demonic influences, thoughts, desires, temptations,...

EGO




This blog asks "Who am I?" will try to distinguish between questions such as. and “What am I?”, this is the beginning of clinging to our own false image. It is nothing but the ego itself. First, let's understand the meaning of self, it is one's self-concept or self-development.

Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis based on Sigmund Freud's id-ego-superego model. Wish. Those who follow ego psychology are interested in the normal and pathological development of the ego, its control of aggressive impulses, and its adaptation to reality. The application of the concept of "personality" to psychology comes mainly from the work of Sigmund Freud. However, interestingly, the word "ego" does not appear in Freud's psychological writings. He never used it. Rather, ego is a translation of Freud's German word "das Ich", meaning "I". Freud was essentially referring to the mind, the determination with which you think you are the "I". When we say, "I like my friend," "I decided to move house," or "I never imagined my house would be sold." This is our identity, our identity.

The drug released for self-awareness is 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine; This drug is unique among many psychoactive substances in that it does not allow the individual to lose integrity of self through separation. of unconsciousness (phenomenologically similar to the transformative peaks described in many ancient contemplative traditions (e.g. Vedanta Advaita, Mahayana Buddhism)

Vedanta's approach to itself is that we feel and know things without experiencing them. We get identified with the ego and we think we are the ego and the rest of it flows immediately.

Shankaracharya's beautiful hymn explains the pure awareness with a great contradiction at the end says "I am not the mind, I am not the intellect, I am not the memory, I am not the ego". All the above mentioned things in this hymn are to be experienced, so we cannot be that.

The whole strategy of Vedanta is to cut the connection between you, the witness self and the ego. Also ego is not always the feeling of superiority, sometimes it also makes us inferior. We take the "roles of life" as our means of identification and existence. Then we judge the person as per the role assigned to him/her which then creates a sense of feeling high or low. This is nothing but ego. The reflection must be the other person, but also the self that already exists. So let's focus on the problem that eliminates everything we talked about in the first line. The ultimate solution is the difference between “I” and “me” and when we understand “I” the ego becomes responsibility.

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