Page 215 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 9

PURITY
feature is our capacity to distinguish between the voice of the Master and the voice of our ego. As persons practicing PAM we do not fall into the pit of confusing our ego with our conscience; yet we may falter often. We many times err thinking that our problems and enemies are outside ourselves and vow to overcome them. But the truth is everything we perceive in the world is just the outer reflection of our inner thoughts. The ultimate war is within us.
The ego is an insulation we have created for ourselves and a close knit thought pattern resembling the thick weaving inside the web near the core center and is essentially designed to protect us from potential harm to our awareness of being. As our focus increases towards it, it grows and our attention span is entirely covered by it. It is not necessarily an enemy to know our true nature; but it can be compared to the unruly child who wants what it likes when it likes. The ego which liked to encircle itself with so many strands of various colors and hues tries always to stick to them and any harm to them it considers is dangerous to its existence. But that is precisely what we seek in the path of liberation. Yet the demand for purification that is willed by our conscience tends to get ignored by it and it resorts to all gimmicks of the child to avoid
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