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crisis. Liberation is possible only in the discovery and recognition of the Self and the metacosmos underlying it.
This Self alone can liberate us from the fear of the death of the Ego and the tyranny this Ego enforces on individual and societies of having to derive the maximum pleasure within the allotted span of year. In an evolutionary, karmic view of the world, Ego is grounded in the Self and grows continually like the oak that achieves its growth by shedding its leaves in innumerable number of yearly cycles. So the death of the Ego cannot end in meaninglessness. At its death the Ego relapses into the Self and assumes another Ego inasmuch as there is unspent karmic potency. Individual has hope and a teleological goal because Ego has a meaningful relation to the Self and the promise of an eternal future. In Christianity the Ego merges in the Self of Christ and ensures its eternal future. In gnostic and mystic religions offering self-knowledge, this eternal future is conceived as the vision of the Self and merger with it. But our emerging world civilisation is progressively snapping this relationship.
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Liberating Ego from its death-wish is liberating evolution
When Ego refuses to recognise the hope of this eternal future, no matter in Eastern or Western way, then it blocks the process of evolution. Then it measures reality with the span of the sixty or eighty years of its existence. Then the motivation of its actions (karma) becomes enjoying the allotted years whatever may be the cost for others and the world. The materialistic, permissive world around us, built up on the logic of consuming, production and market, which has become the trade-mark of our civilisation, is the creation of this Ego.
Freud The libidinal force that drives this Ego, as teaches us, can be Eros-life wish, or Thanatos death wish. The greed after pleasure and consumption is a compensation need of this Ego-compensation for its terminality, Not compensation for the eternal hope it has forfeited. only that this blind Ego, identifying itself with the body
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| SR No. | 524575 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1993 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1993 |
| Total Pages | 162 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 8 MB |