Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

After getting a ‘bit’ affected by people’s comment my alter ego told to me once, “Kennedi you have a big ego.” I replied, “so?”. My alter ego said, “you should not be having so much of ego”. I replied, “why?” The alter ego said, “it might affect your spiritual growth”. I said, “so?” My alter ego said, “all those who have grown spiritually never had ego”. I said, “wow..that gives me a good topic for blogging today”.

If Jesus never had an ego he probably would have accepted the accusation made on him, apologized for his folly, escaped crucifixion, and would have continued healing people. He had so much of ego that he could let himself die at the hands of those who thought he was wrong.

The same is true with Galileo & Socrates. They never compromised on their egos, even when they were sentenced to death by the people who never though they were right. They very easily could have crushed their own self, compromised on their ego, apologized and continued living a normal life! But they never did so.

And Osho for that matter, though he spoke about losing oneself, or dropping the ego for spiritual growth, or trying to go to a no-mind state – I have seen videos of him where he got utterly mad and angry at press reporters and his disciples. Did the ego die, or it was suppressed in the name of spiritual growth?

I have attended Osho meditation camps, few other meditation camps, and have personally meditated for hours together – but still the inner voice has always been there. And am sure with my limited experience in spirituality that this last inner voice is the sound of SELF that could possibly feel the experience of realization and that it can never be put an end to. It will die only when the body dies. So the whole effort of trying to lose ones ego or ones self becomes a useless journey altogether.

End of the day you continue to have a ego of yourself - it could be an IT ego, it can be a doctor ego, it can be an astrologer ego, it can be a teacher ego, it can be a spiritual ego, or it can be an ego of not having an ego!

The best way to lose yourself in the process of spiritual growth is to take ZERO credit for your actions and achievements. If something goes wrong say, it is God’s wish and if something good happens say it is God’s grace. Practice this for years to come, and you will see that you have grown spiritually automatically, without any efforts.