Untying the Knot of the Ego-Consciousness

0:01 As long as an individual is locked within a framework of understanding. He is unable to truly recognize or exceed, the limit of that framework. The ego Consciousness is such a frame of awareness, it creates the sense of a separate individual apart. And having his own autonomy, in contradistinction to the rest of the creation. It creates a sense of self. Elf and other that drives the individual to see things in a fragmented manner. Depending on the cultural background, this may lead people in a particular society to try to control or gain dominion over the rest of the creation or it may lead to a collective understanding of codependent and interconnectedness that reduces the hold of the ego Consciousness as it raises up the sense of community.

1:02 This does not totally remove the ego awareness. However, and there are still opportunities for it to set itself in opposition to others. Even in a community that recognizes the interconnections of all nature. The ego naturally attempts to maximize the sense of well-being, Health achievement progress, success, and recognition for the individual. It is bound up tightly with the attempt to control or Master the outer world. It's beings forces and events. As long as the ego hold sway, it is not really possible to gain any true insight to the nature of the reality within which we exist.

1:50 It is only when we find a way to transcend the barrier set up by the ego and shift the standpoint to a place where we can observe and see the do personality and action that the Spiritual Development can occur. This occurs through the mechanism of the separation of the purusa, from the prakruti, the witness Consciousness from the active nature. This shift of standpoint provides leverage to understand the various forces that act upon the nature and to see and understand the various parts of the being that respond to these forces, SRI, aurobindo notes, quote, The ordinary mind knows itself only as an ego with all the movements of the nature in a jumble and identifying itself with these movements.

2:48 Thanks, I am doing this feeling that thinking enjoy, or in sorrow Etc. The First beginning of real self knowledge is when you feel yourself separate from the nature in you and its movement. And then you see that there are many parts of your being many personalities, each acting on its own behalf, and in its own way. And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother, our many shelves, practical, yogic psychology. After 1 hour manifold B page 5. After 1 hour manifold B page 5.