E-go -- Easy Go

by Sri P.C. Lahiri

Ego is Easy Go. How can ego go easily or how can I go easy with ego?

Conventional spiritual knowledge puts enormous stress on killing ego and prescribes innumerable different techniques to do so. Most of them are very elaborate and need special attention and time. Many of us find it difficult to find time for any activity other than our routine activities. There are voluminous books which try and explain how important it is to kill ego. Ego is dubbed as the root cause of all problems and tension. Hence they implore us to find time to go to a particular school to get rid of the demon called ego. I have so far not received a satisfactory answer to a simple question from any of these ego killers — how can you kill ego without using another ego to kill it? So, at the end of the killing exercise, an ego will always remain.

Real spirituality is all-encompassing. It kills nothing; it assimilates/dissolves all many-ness into Oneness, into Itself.  This is the most important point which we all God/Self seekers must understand first and then accept as a way of life to ultimately become one with that perfect Oneness/God.  God creates the universe, runs it and finally assimilates/dissolves it within Himself. God does not kill anyone/anything, as we understand the word ‘kill’, because the entire universe is nothing but God Himself.  Universe came into existence only because of His divine Will to become many and play with Himself by appearing as the diversified forms-names-ideas of the brahmanda (i.e. the universe).

Still each school claims to be the best and most friendly. They adjust their programs as per the need of an interested group. These programs look attractive, and many of us do attend them, stealing time from our extremely busy schedules.

I did a minor analysis after talking to a few city-based stressed out attendees of such programs conducted by different schools.  Most of them came back highly satisfied, happy and raring to get on their lives afresh. I had another meeting with them after 30 to 60 days of the program. All of them, without exception, were back to square one. The satisfaction was temporary and the feeling of ease and comfort vanished within days. They agreed, albeit after some clear cut discussions and clarifications, that in all these schools there is a special environment and routine created specifically for the programs. As an attendee gets out of that routine and environment, the old lifestyle takes over very soon. It is in fact impossible for obvious reasons to maintain the program-lifestyle, atmosphere, routine and food. Some of the attendees periodically keep going back, more out of seeking an oasis rather than an intrinsic permanent change that would make life easier under any given inner or outer circumstance.

Without proper scientific training/refinement of the inner faculties while remaining in the day-to-day routine and lifestyle, neither can there be any significant impact, nor any permanent change to bring about lasting peace and joy. 

The need of the hour is a solution through a procedure that does not create time pressure or for that matter extra pressure of any kind on the highly stressed human being of this age.  Is it possible?  Yes, it is very much possible due to the sheer un-reasoned Grace of Prajnanpurush Sri Sri Babathakur (hereinafter called the Master).

At the outset the Master says that this entire world drama is the divine game of the Absolute, being played out of exuberance of joy (ananda atisajjena prajnanbrahma vijnanamayiba, vijnanabrahma jnanamayiba, jnanabrahma ajnanamayiba) and for no other reason at all.  The world phenomenon is the game of the Supreme Divine, for the Supreme Divine, with the Supreme Divine and in the Supreme Divine only, being played out of exuberance of joy of the Supreme Divine. There exists no second entity.  Hence, it is not our game at all. If it is not our game, then where and why should there be stress, tension, fear et al.

What are you saying? How is that possible? How can I suddenly drop my world and say that everything is a divine game? No, you do not have to drop the world around you but only start “a thinking and believing process in your mind” from today that in reality the world phenomenon is the game of the Supreme Divine, not mine. I am not the doer, enjoyer, experiencer and sufferer. The feeling that I am the doer, enjoyer etc. keeps coming back to me only out of old habits cultivated through many past lives, including this one. Hence, it may take time to go. Alright, accept it and move on with life along with this new mental practice. That’s all. Keep working on whatever you are doing or want to do or not do or anything else. So no extra tension gets created in any way.  Just keep reminding that one thing to yourself time and again throughout the day. Only awareness of this simple mental practice is required without disturbing the daily routine at all. No extra time, energy or money is needed. Continued practice of this will ensure that ego has no base to stand on, no ground to play on. No need for any special program.  Come to think of it, it is magic - if there is anything called magic that is not a trick. Only have faith and belief in the words of the Master. We believe in so many intricate and difficult things in life. Why should it be difficult to believe this straightforward direction of the Master, especially when it is usable without spending any extra time, money and energy? At least we can try sincerely.

No one in this universe is getting displaced or disturbed by this internal practice. In the apparent nature nothing is changing, but in reality what is happening is much bigger than what the eyes can see or what other senses can experience.  It is way beyond the common human experience. The entire world system run by Mother Nature will start conspiring to unify the practitioner with the Supreme Truth — the Absolute Reality, thereby establishing him/her in the state of Bliss Absolute, Peace Absolute without even his/her knowing about it. Such is the efficacy, glory and majesty of following the directions of a Perfect Soul. They appear only to provide The Medicine for the universal ailment afflicting mankind as a whole.  Such incarnates are the rarest of rare.

Is it that simple? ‘Yes, it is’, says the Master, ‘Truth is simpler than the simplest.’ Years and years of tapasya (austere penance) is not needed any more. Why is it that this medicine for all ills of life was not presented in this fashion earlier? Perhaps it was not needed is the kind of answer that emanates from the lotus lips of the Master. In the kali yuga, human capability to do tapasya as prescribed by the past Masters, is very limited. Such is the design and beauty of the divine game. It has nothing to do with the fall or rise of humanity. The Absolute Itself is playing with Itself, by acting as the good, the bad and the rest, as also the yugas from satya to kali.  It is going to turn a corner at the end of kali yuga to assimilate Its own spread (the visible universe) within, only to unveil the golden age (satya yuga) again. Let us not forget as we go along that this world phenomenon is the divine game of that Supreme One Absolute to play with Itself, by becoming many within Itself only. If that were not so, how can there be the advent of such a Supreme Soul as the Master in this age? After all the august proclamation — ‘world drama is the sportful dramatic sameside game of Self-Consciousness’ — has revealed in the Master in this age only.

All we need to do is simply have faith and belief in the supreme discovery of the Master. He has done the hard work already (His life is the proof) for humanity at large and presented it freely for one and all without any exception or reservation. Why should “ego” not be “easy go” to establish us once and for all in our true divine nature ---- the Absolute I-Reality.