This is impossible. Ego cannot be renounced because ego has no existence. Ego is only one idea: there is no essence in it. This is nothing – it is just nothing pure. You trust it and give it reality. You can give up trust and reality disappears, disappears.
Ego is a kind of lack. Ego is because you do not know yourself. The moment you know yourself, you will not get any ego. Ego is similar to darkness; Darkness does not have any positive existence of its own; This is simply lack of light. Can’t you fight darkness, or fight? You cannot throw darkness outside the room; You cannot get him out, you cannot bring him inside. You cannot do anything directly with darkness, for this you have to do something with light. If you light up then there will be no darkness; If you extinguish the light, there is darkness.
Darkness is lacking light, ego is also like this: lack of self-knowledge. You cannot renounce it. You have been told this again and again: “Kill your ego”-and this sentence is clearly absurd, because the thing that does not exist cannot be renounced. And if you will also try to sacrifice him, which is not present, then you will create a new ego-the ego of being a new ego, the ego of being unhappy, the ego of the person who thinks that he gave up his ego. It will again be a new type of darkness.
No, I do not ask you to renounce ego. On the contrary, I would say that try to see where is the ego? Look at its depth; Try to catch it where it is, or whether it is in reality or not. Before sacrificing anything, its presence should be confirmed.
But do not go against it from the beginning. If you oppose it, you will not be able to see it deeply. There is no need to go against anything. Ego is your experience-you can look late, but if you have your experience. Your whole life revolves around the events of ego. It may be a dream, but it is absolutely true for you.
There is no need to oppose it. Take a deep dip in it, enter inside. Entering it means bringing awareness to your home, bringing light to darkness. Be careful be cautious. Look at the methods of ego, how it works, how it operates. And you will be surprised; The deeper you go into it, it is not as much visible. And when you enter the center of your inner atmosphere, you will find something completely different which is not an ego. Which is uninterrupted. This is its own feeling, its own culmination – -this is Bhagavata. You now disappeared as a separate power; Now you are not a uninhabited island, you are a part of full.
