Understanding And Moving Beyond

Understanding the ahaṅkār is easy because it is something to do with the outer world. All you need to do is, come to a point where you yourself understand that you are struggling to maintain your ahaṅkār or image with the outer world. That is enough, the job is done! The moment you realize you are unnecessarily struggling to maintain an image for the sake of the outer world, you will stop doing it! If you just sit for a few minutes and contemplate, 'I think what I am going to project is never going to be fulfilled or is never going to become reality', it is enough, the job is done. You can drop ahaṅkār.

But if you start fighting with your mamakār, if you start chiseling your mamakār, if you start developing your mamakār, there is nobody to even tell you that you are caught in it because it is something happening within you. Trying to develop the identity which you show to the outer world, and trying to develop the identity which you believe as yourself, both will end only in deep suffering, because both have no base. Neither ahaṅkār nor mamakār have a base. The moment you understand that these