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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM VOL 5
When the ego is in charge, the individual receives identity from the decision-making process, explained in the Cartesian philosophy with the famous "I think therefore I am" or "I am my past, my decisions" or "My autopilot is good." Identity of this sort yields a reactive state, where the true self or God-self is silent and the mind‘s reactions to its environment becomes the reality or identity. This is like thinking that a telephone is good because we just heard good news from it. The conduit or medium for action, the mind, is not the message, it is the messenger. The question is then, if the mind is only the messenger, who sent the message and what is the identity of this entity? With no ̳O‘ in the S-O-R model, the ego is the messenger. When the O (Observation) exists in the S-O-R model, the God- self is the messenger. It is easy to tell which is sending the message by
(1) the conscious realization of a pause or O or otherwise and
(2) the intent of the message to either maximize personal well- being or that of the whole planet or Universe.
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