212 Ego is a substantial disease

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 Ego is illness, substantial illness, because you continually have to remember that you are somebody. It's a simple feeling of 'am-ness' and 'is-ness'  that makes consciousness unhealthy. For healthy mind, ego must be destroyed otherwise whatever is ill, will continuously, create a tension in our mind. If a person wants to free from this disease, he/she has to get rid of it.

Let us see, 'How?'  The best examples are- 

1. When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten--when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; and when the heart is right, 'for' and 'against' are forgotten.

2. When there is headache, we can't forget the head. We immediately, take medicine so that it may not become dangerous. Similarly, ego must be nipped in the beginning.

3. When we are healthy, we become 'bodiless' because we forget it. But once we become ill, the body attracts our attention. 

                                       The same applies to the mind. When there is no ego, our consciousness remains healthy.

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