Page 145 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 3

MY FREEDOM
while Life is passing, the fictitious ’I’ tries to stand alone and seeks the mirage of separateness. Obviously this is foolish though the “I” or Ego has been granted an exalted seat well decorated with vanity. It has no value other than that it is created. The value of a diamond is what we give it and it is incapable of helping us with a glass of water when we are thirsty in the middle of a desert. It value is a fiction created in thought.
If the fictitious Ego does not spin out so many ideas many a thing would lose its value which is another fiction. Then I seek to fulfill only the needs and wants and thus desires perish. This activity of the reflective consciousness is what engages attention in a detached person. I then do not run to look at all that is being sold and do not hear the marketing brother who tries to convince me that I will truly be all that I” should” be. My wisdom lies in not underestimating the power of this stupidity to value what is worthless.
My consciousness is inseparably united with the universal consciousness. Ocean and its waves
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