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Me and My Dedication
back...walk slowly... it's ok if you dash with someone but do not open your eyes, go to the gate, touch it and return back...come back slowly...now open your eyes...only one minute has passed... how did you feel? Felt very nervous. Walk in your own house for at least 10 minutes with your eyes closed... do your routine work... but do not open your eyes even for a second.... practically experience it rather than listening theoretically... you will realise... your ego becomes half when you cannot see. Loss of hearing along with loss of vision will further reduce it by another 30%.
We are ego less when we are all alone, but people around us make us feel like a hero. We are egoless when our circumstances are ordinary. But as we progress in life and earn a better living and gather more happiness, luxuries, money... simultaneously our number of friends and relatives begin to increase... more and more people start respecting us... when we become materialistic... the balloon of our ego swells.
This Brahmin is also very egoistic..."Oh!! no one is a better scholar than me...no one is as knowledgeable as me. No one has disciples and devotees as many as mine..!!" Every individual feels he is better than others. "I'm the best, greatest of all". He thinks about everyone else except his soul!! Everything else other than our soul is the root cause of our ego.
The Sage Brahmin was experiencing extreme pride.
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