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RINGS OF EGOISM
conglomerate. Most of the time it is considered as ―Conscience‖. By a peculiar capacity to create ̳ a faculty‘ with an ̳entity‘ which is purely a figment of imagination. But this illusion and identification with that illusion is the characteristic of this second ring of egoism. All assessment of the individual as well as others in the aspect of so called ̳character and conduct‘ is a bias or prejudice this faculty makes and most of the time is the basis for inter-personal conflicts.
3. In this third stage the Ego adopts the posture that it is ̳mind‘ that is the doer of things and holds that all actions are due to the accumulated ̳idea power‘ (termed as samskaras, effect of karmas etc.) that is the doer and the individual is helpless. This aspect is the most popular one of the religious/ pseudo religious persons. And many times those who call themselves as Jnanis give this argument. Though there is a truth that all things that happen to us are a result of our past actions, the abdication of responsibility for correction that follows the result of the prior actions is a totally unwarranted journey into sloth and despondency.
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