Page 477 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
which erect walls between the people are found to persist despite the teachings, exhortations and painstaking labour on the part of the Master causing Him great anguish and
acute distress.
We have seen earlier the manifestation of the grosser aspects of the idea of limitation by thinking that the ‘lake’ was all there was to see, in concern for the body and the concern for the concern. The Master now refers to the arising of the bondage of egoism and its firm establishment in the people who started thinking highly of themselves though they were not so in truth. As has been well discussed in the article Pretence (BP V4), ego is basically a falsehood, a lie. The Master has stated that ego is stating something ‘not true’ as ‘true’ with respect to oneself. The most astonishing thing is how we have allowed this lie to a take a stranglehold on our pristine nature, went on building our own network with it as the base only to be caught ultimately in the intricacies of our own self created web. We may note that God has been compared in the tradition to a spider who weaves his web that is creation (Prakriti) but just like the spider He is not caught in His own web. Master says clearly that ego is an impediment in realizing God (Sruti p273) and ‘there may have been elevated souls who might have gone beyond the sphere of Maya, but hardly one who would have shattered all the eleven coverings of the ego’ (Sruti p271) while talking about the difficulties in extricating oneself from the bondage of egoism. Again we find Him warning about the great damage the nurturing the thought of egoism and allowing it to build can do to the sadhaka in, ‘If we consider ourselves great we put up a wall to the Greatness where we have to arrive. We create a bondage, so to say, that becomes an obstruction on the path.—when we assume greatness we start considering others as low (insignificant). Now that path, we have to trudge also gets
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