What is the ego?
Enquire.
The body is insentient and cannot say ’I’.
The Self is pure consciousness and non-dual. It cannot say ’I’.
No one says ’I’ in sleep.
What is the ego then?
It is something intermediate between the inert body and the Self.
It has no locus standi.
If sought for it vanishes like a ghost.
At night a man may imagine that there is a ghost by his side because of the play of shadows.
If he looks closely he discovers that the ghost is not really there, and what he imagined to be a ghost was merely a tree or a post.
If he does not look closely the ghost may terrify him.
All that is required is to look closely and the ghost vanishes.
The ghost was never there.
So also with the ego.Bhagavan
