Continued from Part-I ...
Whenever you feel troubled or miserable you might tend to blame people, circumstances, yourself or luck but what is actually going on inside you is that you in fact are actually feeling bad about yourself.
Next time when you feel miserable, just sit aside for a while and close your eyes. Try to think of the real source of your angst and if you try really hard, you will find lurking inside yourself, your ego, which is nothing else but your image of yourself, and somehow it got refuted. Your self image which has taken over your real self controls you and whenever it is invalidated, you will feel uncomfortable and bad about yourself- you will feel sad, miserable, hurt or angry.
Whenever you feel troubled or miserable you might tend to blame people, circumstances, yourself or luck but what is actually going on inside you is that you in fact are actually feeling bad about yourself.
Next time when you feel miserable, just sit aside for a while and close your eyes. Try to think of the real source of your angst and if you try really hard, you will find lurking inside yourself, your ego, which is nothing else but your image of yourself, and somehow it got refuted. Your self image which has taken over your real self controls you and whenever it is invalidated, you will feel uncomfortable and bad about yourself- you will feel sad, miserable, hurt or angry.
Similarly when you feel elated and happy, delve inside yourself and you will find that it is just your own image that was confirmed somehow, by people around you or by yourself. For a moment you feel elated because at that moment you felt comfortable with your pseudo- self which in fact is just the image of you on yourself and nothing more. It is not true. It is not real you and so time and again you must have realised that happiness is momentary and transitory in nature.
In either case, it is not your true self that is happy or sad. It is just your ego that is happy or sad and it will make you react in a very arbitrary way. It makes us act irrationally and take the most foolish steps all the time.
On a fine day, you might wake up in the morning all rested and reposed feeling healthy and strong. You may plan the events of the day in the most logical and plausible way possible. But when it comes to actually going about the plan you will see that mostly it never turns out as it was planned. If you do a bit of unbiased introspection, you will find that it was mostly you yourself who took the most arbitrary irrational and wayward decision inspite of remembering the initial plan. And you might wonder why you did what you shouldn't have done and that it is not your true nature to blow up your own plans which were for your own benefit. But you will never remember why you took the foolish decision.
It is the ego that takes full control the moment we step outside and started noticing people. Ego, as you can now see, creeps in mostly when we are amongst people.
The sages of Ancient India said that the ego is a by product of living in society. When there is no society, there is no ego at all. Once you are in a society, your real self that is endowed with logical reasoning and intelligent thinking takes refuge somewhere inside the dark recesses of your subconscious and the false part of you- your ego comes to the fore and assumes full control over you without your knowing. Then it makes you behave in the most stupidest of all ways. The real you which made you leave the house comfortably has now left you. You start feeling uncomfortable and uneasy.
The sages of Ancient India said that the ego is a by product of living in society. When there is no society, there is no ego at all. Once you are in a society, your real self that is endowed with logical reasoning and intelligent thinking takes refuge somewhere inside the dark recesses of your subconscious and the false part of you- your ego comes to the fore and assumes full control over you without your knowing. Then it makes you behave in the most stupidest of all ways. The real you which made you leave the house comfortably has now left you. You start feeling uncomfortable and uneasy.
You might start feeling that there is something wrong with your circumstances or with the people around you.
This is what ego does to you. You can no longer control anything around you. You will feel defeated and powerless. It will make you do the most irrational things without letting you realize that it was your ego that made you act in the most irresponsible manner.
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