Ego Is Virtuous

Divergent to the popular belief that ego is the reason of your demolition, in metaphysical world ego is the only incentive to transcend from the lower echelon to the higher ones. Why then the global scriptures or seers, be those from Hinduism, Christianism or Islamism sects, potentially deliberate on the annihilation of ego at personal level to achieve the spiritual growth or even salvation? In religious or political ecosystem, the leaders always want the followers. So, from the day of initiation of followers into the system these leaders indoctrinate the belief that ego is an obstacle to the growth of human being. That’s absolutely false and preposterous. The only reason why they spread these canards is to ensure that their followers are subservient to their causes. In these circumstances, a person with ego can think independently and may not think in consonance with the ulterior motives of these leaders. Thus, from many thousands of generations of human settlement in social milieu, these leaders are propagating false values to their followers on cultivation of ego. 

Let me first scientifically deconstruct the theory of continuity in human evolution process before delving into the cultivation of ego theory. As everybody knows the evolution of mankind has taken billions of years in the chronology of genesis of universe, for a lower species to surpass the original genetic construct and move to the category of higher species is mostly sublime and gentle. Normally, this process takes millions of years. What actually prompt the living consciousness to passage from one terrain to another are self-realization and an intemperance of extrapolation. In a specific realm of life, the growth of life is compounded with the awareness of higher self – a state of conscience that unfailingly triggers the quantification of actualization of life – which we colloquially connote “the more, the merrier.” The ego starts from there. When a person with many virtues and few vices vacillates in moral dilemma during a decisive moment of truth, his or her ego plays a cardinal role to bolster the thought that what in a societal dynamism he or she is representing. A person with real ego for his social position and status will think twice before taking a wrong decision. On the contrary, a person sans ego will move on with his or her instinct.

Why crimes of any kind or wrongdoings are happening in this world? Is this happening only because of ignorance or disrespect for law? No, not really. Even the white-collar crimes are carried out by highly brilliant minds – educated and well-off. The reason is these people don’t have conscience or moral ego to fight against a wrong decision. Real ego differentiates a person from the crowd on various attributes such as knowledge, wealth, beauty, righteousness, integrity, honesty and social position. People who actually cultivate these attributes by convincing their ego will always uphold their position and social value system vis-à-vis to those people who don’t have an iota of ethical ego.

Ego is never a deleterious factor either for your spiritual or mundane growth in life. Ego is the preserver of your value system that stimulates you to be superior to other mortals. Ego is your self-esteem. You are nothing without your ego. Your true self is your ego. Cultivate ego in a more subtle way to transform yourself from a lower moral to a higher mortal. In Hindu philosophy, the Sanskrit verse “Aham Brahmāsmīti” translates to “I am of Brahman” or “I am the Infinite Reality”. This actually guides us to transcend from mortal to immortal, finite to infinite and mundane to celestial. This is the ego of being human with virtues, which propels you further up in spiritual cycles to the highest order. Remember when you leave this mundane world your soul is only accompanied by your ego, nothing else.