EGO HUMBLED

Ego Humbled

Tejinder Narang

Ego and humility are intertwined in consciousness in varying degrees for ensuring survival on material plane.  Ego represents assertion of self for attainments of objectives of life. Humility mitigates over obsession with self so that others are able to live and survive with dignity. The simple correlation is –progressive erosion of ego leads to humility.

Generally religious thoughts preach denial of ego and elevation of humility to the level of extinction of identity. That cannot be the law of life as it denies existentialism conceived by the Creator.  Ego’s coexistence and consequently its substantial sublimation to humility can be narrated through following perspective--

Humble we are before our superiors and bosses.  Even though it may be a calculated humility, it confirms that nature of our mind is to become meek when faced with greater power and authority. In moments of serious introspection or self-realization or meditative concentration, when we sense that our existence is akin to a remotely controlled robotic toy with little free will or a free will   where “pre-determined conditions of Cosmic Powers apply” then ego consciousness feels truly and undeniably humbled.

Self-will remains subservient to supremacy of Supreme Will always.  Intensity of this (spiritual) understanding leads to pulverization of egotism. Ego is then humbled. Even a mountain of human ego is meek before an ant when it sights dominance of Divinity that makes the tiniest creature eat, digest, see, run and survive with extraordinary agility. At that state of humility, ego is passive. Yet both co-exist.