Why does one have ego? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Lalleshwari (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Do not ask why does the will o' the wisp or the ego or your personal center still exist.

00:23If you will ask why does it exist?

00:27The answer is your birth.

00:30It exists because you do.

00:37When was the ego born?

00:41When I was born.

00:45As long as you keep taking yourself as the born one, as the one who took birth one day

00:54and is going to die one day, the ego is definitely going to remain.

01:02So if Parameswari asks why do I have ego?

01:10Do you see what comes before the ego?

01:16What is the question?

01:17Why do I have the ego?

01:22I doesn't even need to have the ego.

01:24The I is the ego.

01:28Till there is Parameswari, there is bound to remain the, don't you see what Parameswari

01:37means?

01:38A body that is separate from the, that is ego.

01:45As someone who is localized temporarily and spatially, Parameswari is in this hall at

01:5512 noon.

02:00Had she been the truth, she would have continued wherever she was.

02:05But at 3 p.m. she would be at the Ganga, not here.

02:10So she's localized.

02:13Similarly, spatially, at 12 noon, because she is here, so she cannot be at the Ganga.

02:29This is what is ego, a thing of time and space, a thing that is severely limited by time and

02:39space and therefore suffers and is therefore debilitated.

02:46Even if you want to, you cannot be at the Ghat at this very time.

02:54And that you see is at the center of a lot of your suffering.

03:02Were you not limited in time, you would have immediately gone back to the past and corrected

03:09it.

03:10But you are limited in time.

03:11If you are here, you can neither be in the past nor in the future.

03:19If you were not limited in space, then you would have controlled the entire universe

03:24by being present wherever you wanted to, or maybe by being present everywhere in the universe

03:31and therefore being the universe itself.

03:36But you cannot do that and therefore you suffer.

03:40Do you now see what desire is?

03:42All your desires are limited to time and space.

03:45You could also say all your desires are related to your limitations in time and space.

03:53All your desires are related to your limitations in time and space.

03:57Had you not been limited, what would have you desired?

04:02If you are the entire universe at all times, what is left to desire?

04:10Therefore as long as there is this, there would remain the will or the wish.

04:20Now you have to see what do you want to do with this necessary limitation.

04:28That's the human condition.

04:30This necessary, this inevitable limitation.

04:34That is why those who have known, the saints, they have said that it was not a great thing

04:42that happened to you, the human birth.

04:47But now that it has occurred, you better make the best use of it.

04:56But it would have been far far better had you never really been.

05:02Now that you are born, strive to come out of this incessant cycle of birth and rebirth

05:11and death.

05:15In fact that's what is liberation.

05:18That's how the Orient has known liberation.

05:22Liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth and death.

05:30Because the moment you are born, that is born from which you seek liberation.

05:37The moment you are born, you are born along with that from which you seek liberation.

05:47So why be born at all?

05:52So now you better use it to the fullest.

05:58Live in a way that is directed towards freedom.

06:07And it is equally rather much more possible to live in a way that strengthens your bondages.

06:21Hence be cautious.

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