Nirmala Srivastava Quotes About Ego

Quotes about: Ego

• If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Fun

• And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Ocean

• I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

• Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• So our ego has to be seen. It is to be watched in a witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point because that is the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and all your problems will be solved because these problems are so frivolous and have no meaning.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

• Surrender is not that you should give up your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and your properties. Surrendering is here: give up your ego to begin with and then give up your conditionings.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Children

• Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

• Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Fun

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