Transcend Your Ego

Ego is ‘not being natural’ – not feeling at home, and not having a sense of belongingness. This is what creates tension and problems in you, it makes you stiff, it makes you suffer, and brings tears to your eyes. Ego doesn’t let the love flow. Ego is separateness, wanting to prove and possess.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Isn’t Ego essential?

Ego is essential up to a certain stage of growth, but then it must be transcended.

The intention of a worm is to fly high, but it winds itself into a cocoon; it does just the opposite of flying. But then, it comes out of the cocoon as a butterfly and flies high. In the same way, at the age of two, you get into an egoistic shell, and you grow in it.

Once you cross a certain age, then you realize that all that you went through as a teenager, all the uproar and emotional upheavals, all that has dropped from you, and you have started smiling from a different space. You have become mature. At this time, the ego has to be dropped, and it drops if the growth is balanced and perfect.