{"id":648,"date":"2015-06-09T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=648"},"modified":"2015-06-09T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:42:00","slug":"ego-is-the-flame-that-consumes-all-and-then-destroys-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/ego-is-the-flame-that-consumes-all-and-then-destroys-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego is the flame that consumes all \u2013 and then destroys the self."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let your ego consumes you so that in the race of getting ahead from every one you don&#8217;t lose those who truly cared for you.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Unknown<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u201c&#8230;the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Jos\u00e9 Saramago, Blindness<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n\u092e\u0948 \u092e\u0948 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0940 \u092c\u0932\u0948 \u0939\u0948, \u0938\u0915\u0948 \u0924\u094b \u0928\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0938\u094b \u092d\u093e\u091c\u0940 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0915\u092c \u0932\u0917 \u0930\u093e\u0916\u094c \u0939\u0947 \u0938\u0916\u093f, \u0930\u0941\u0908 \u0932\u092a\u0947\u091f\u0940 \u0906\u0917\u093f \u0965<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nMai Mai Badi Balai Hai, Sakai To Nikso Bhaji |<br \/>\nKab Lag Rakhau He Sakhi, Rui Lapeti Aagi ||<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cI\u201c is an overpowering word (thought) \u2013 though entrancing, get rid of it if possible|<br \/>\nAs cotton wrapped around a fire cannot contain it (it succumbs), so also ego will consume you||<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>My understanding:<\/strong><br \/>\nEgo \u2013 everything seems to be visible only through this lens, and all input seems to end up at the table that ego serves itself.<\/p>\n<p>So then, all action finds direction from the ephemeral construct that we call ego, instead of from the true self. Hence, nothing we do seems to be able to satisfy us or satiate a need \u2013 for how can something done under the direction of an opinioned entity that is not me truly help, satisfy or serve me?<\/p>\n<p>When we understand this, we can begin the battle that starts with identifying ego through its various manifestations, and whose end goal needs to be understanding and learning to ignore ego \u2013 for we can never truly destroy or overpower it. Ego never dies \u2013 it only re-manifests itself under a new cloak!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let your ego consumes you so that in the race of getting ahead from every one you don&#8217;t lose those who truly cared for you.\u201d &#8211; Unknown \u00a0 \u201c&#8230;the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}