Surge Seven (Advanced)
One Ego – Many Faces
1. The ego is born in forms (roopa), stays in forms, and consumes forms.
2. It drops one form, and without delay, takes another form.
3. Its inner truth is without form!
4. Its forms disappear upon inquiring, “Who am I?” (The essence – Pure Awareness without forms – remains).
5. It is neither the body nor the Awareness. It is something ‘in between’.
6. It assumes the ‘form’ of the body and pretends to ‘know’ as Awareness does.
7. Its names are many: ego, knot, bondage, subtle body, mind, worldliness and individual soul.
8. Its appearance breathes life into the appearances of ‘he, she, it and they’.
9. Its advent makes ‘past, present and future’ (time divisions) look real.
10. Its emergence brings a sense of reality to ‘here and there’ (space divisions).
11. Its rise makes all our problems look real.
12. Searching for it is the way to complete victory in life.
(Basis: Maharshi Ramana’s Saddarshanam: verse 27 for points 1 through 4; verse 26 for points 5, 6 and 7; verse 18 for point 9; verse 19 for point 10 and verse 28 for points 11 and 12.)
Swami Chidananda
Monday, March 24, 2003