Before we delve into this subject, we must
understand what is ego? How does it
affect our lives? Can we suppress ego
and finally whether ego is good or bad?
Ego can be metaphorically interpreted as “Edging God out.” Ego is an excessive representation of I-ness. Under these circumstances, one forgets
everything and his entire focus rests only on self. When you are talking or
performing any activity showing ego, it shows your vanity, pride, arrogance,
foolishness and stupidity. But if you
suppress the feeling of I-ness, then automatically the arrogance and vanity
will be lessened and you will be looking as an innocent person. The most
important question is that why people show ego?
Just to show their power of superiority. To some extent, your egoistic
nature is not that harmful. But the
large ego or if you always take the shelter of egoism, then the same is not
only bad, but also can invite disaster in your life. If you closely analyze all your skills,
intellectualism and accomplishments, nothing are pertaining to you. These are
the attributes, which you might have acquired because of necessity. When you attach ego to your achievement, all
your progress in life gets reduced almost to a negligible. You must acknowledge the fact that everything
is created by God. With the help of God
and His power, you are able to achieve success overcoming various
obstacles. So, if you show pride, it is
your unnecessary inflated ego.
Emptiness is the absence of ego. You should have charismatic desire to be hollow on the
inside, so that the same space can be filled up by divine music. If you want to
receive the music of God and His good wishes, you should come out from your
self-centeredness. There should not be
any I-ness, no vanity, no pride and it will be like a state of nihilism.
Significance
of dreams:
We have a deep conscious state of waking and also
we have a deep state of sleep. As per
the definition of our mind, we have a conscious, a subconscious and a super
conscious mind. All of us perform very
many activities through the conscious mind and
analyze through the use of super conscious mind. The conscious mind acts
like a filter to provide us signal how we should behave. It is up to us whether to take a cue from the
signal or not. When certain memories and
past experiences accumulated in conscious mind and pass through this filter,
they become part of the subconscious. It
is to be visualized the power of the subconscious. Is it possible for us to identify conscious
in the subconscious? It is difficult to
directly recognize the power of the subconscious. If you are able to realize the true meaning
of the subconscious, then through hypnosis, you can only feel its
existence. You can also assess
subconscious through dreams. The dreams
are the media to reconcile your unfulfilled expectations. Dreams provide signals to the conscious mind
by the subconscious mind. During the
state of dreaming, we, of course, do not have the awareness that we are
dreaming. So, dreams provide signals to our subconscious mind, which in turn
provides us clues to deal in with the life of our conscious mind. The correct way to act with a dream is to live
and pursue that dream when we are awakened.
You must carry out a psycho-drama of the dream. For example, you are a fanatic supporter of Cricket
and an ardent fan of Sachin
Tendulkar. You are seeing in your dream
that he is playing a test match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It may have powerful symbolic
significance. When you dream, you
dramatize the same to your heart’s content and enact the dream in the conscious
state. The playing of Sachin in the test match and dreaming the same suggests that you get sensitive to know when
he is able to score half century or century and in this way, you try to connect
yourself to him and to other like-minded
people. Through the dream in your subconscious stage, you may be interested to do networking, but in the real
life, you might be very alone. It is a known fact that many people are lonely
because they are unable to connect with their family members, relatives or neighbors. Because of large egos, they don’t show their
courage to break out of the shell of seclusion, which they prefer to live. If you are able to comprehend the meaning of your
any dream pertaining to a celebrity or a familiar face, you will understand
that it is an invitation to you to break out of your seclusion.
Let us take the case of the test cricket as stated
above; since you are an ardent supporter of cricket, you are dreaming in that
fashion. You can dream in your sleep provided your mind is ready to understand
the signals in sleep. Try to recollect all the incidences what had happened
from the morning till the time you start seeing the dream. Then remember all
the experiences of the day thoroughly and re-frame them with a higher level of
awareness with positivity. Then go over
the previous day and recollect the dreams and follow this exercise. At that point of time, if you closely
observe, you will feel that your mind is on a spiritual level. Your mind will be like a
sharp pencil and you will not be afflicted by the contagions social taboo of
ego. Through the absence of ego, you
will be not only able to connect with your inner peace, but also the others surrounding
you.
So, take away excessive ego from your life and
enjoy the same to your heart’s content.
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