Be Alone And Shed Your Ego!

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

-Staff

By Staff

Monday, September 1, 2008, 11:37

Aloneness is the nature of man. It is the original state of the Being. 1. Even before birth, in the being, the Being alone, blissful and peaceful. That was the happiest moment of the Being's existence. Throughout our life, even as we live, grow, and die in society, we are essentially alone. 'I am the thread among the beads', says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. The beads are the incidents in our life. Aloneness is the thread. Aloneness is the Self. Everyone says: long ago, according to the records of all cultures and religions, there was a time when joy and peace reigned. I tell you: this is not real. This is the impression of one's life in the womb. This is the impression of the peace that was there in the aloneness inside the mother's womb. Scientists say that even the quest for enlightenment is the imprint of the life in the mother's womb.

About 6000 years ago Mesopotamians wrote, 'It is now the age of sin. Morality is bad; children don't listen to parents; wives don't respect husbands. The Vedas, composed 5000 years ago say, 'This is the Kali Age. Everything is sinful.' Just imagine! And we all think that the past was golden. These are memories of the golden past that the Being yearns for.
Memories erupt during man's search for aloneness. Our mind cannot live alone; it can only flourish in relationship. Mind, ego, and personality are alive only in the relationships we build in society. Our individuality is aloneness; that is our nature. Our personality, on the other hand, is societal. What others think about us, what we have earned, what comforts we enjoy are all a part of our personality. Personality is the title given to us by society. It is our personality that feels lonely. Personality is external. Individuality is internal.

Individuality is what we naturally are and we nurture our personality at the cost of our individuality.The cry of individuality, heard above the clamor of our personality, is expressed as the pain of our loneliness. Attention, good or bad, is the food for personality. Whether positive or negative, we crave attention. We seek, demand, and beg for attention. When we are alone, there is no one to praise or blame us. When we start realizing that we are not our personality, we feel alone and shaken. We are afraid to realize that we are more than just a husband or a doctor; that these are just parts of our total being. When we start losing our ego, a defining moment in our lives has happened. Allow it to happen and expand in it. You will find permanent happiness in your life.

Listen to Paramahamsa Nithyananda Shiva Sutras-Discover Who You Are-Awareness Is The Key