Not having ego from the beginning is not a very good symptom. The ego comes and go, then enjoy it, then enjoy it. Those who do not have ego, how will they surrender. The ability to resolve is required before surrendering. The head needs before bending and the more the head is high, the deeper the bending. I believe that the ego has increased like danger, but we can make this danger a ladder. Every danger should come to the art of making a ladder. As if the poor man leaves, what will leave, that is why I say that you will be rich in worry, the day you will have money, the fun of leaving will be something else. Enjoyed leaving Buddha. Mahavir enjoyed it, because he had something to leave.
This is ego. Education, society should be such that your ego is enhanced. Along with enhancing, give the ability to leave. There is a feeling of egoism, in which the ego is not yet born, it is innocence. There is a danger in this, ego can be produced at any time, ego will definitely be produced in it. Not in this birth, in the next life. But there is another state beyond the ego. Ego will be born there, you will also see his pain and know happiness. You will weigh happiness and sorrow and also know that there is more sorrow. Happiness is only hopeful, sorrow is experience. The consolation is of heaven, but what is found is hell. After such experience you left the ego. With love, awareness, carefully, devotion, then you will have a humility, which will be unique.
Today’s man has moved ahead of the earlier man. But he has progressed in many directions, some of which are dangerous. His consciousness has also increased, his love for peace has also increased. His brotherhood has also increased, but the ego has also increased simultaneously. But there is no need to fear this. My own experience is that the friends of our country are always ready to surrender, but their surrender is weak, because there is no strength of resolution. Their dedication is formal, because they keep on touching anyone’s feet. This is his congenital habit. People bring young children to me, they show ego and their mother says ‘touch the feet’. I say that when the children become conscious, they will touch, otherwise they will not touch. What is the compulsion in this? But the mother says that if we do not practice them, then how will they touch. Gradually the head becomes accustomed to bending. When someone comes from the West and touches, who does not have a habit of bending, he has to bend.
Western psychology teaches to nurture ego. Give ego freedom. Do not bend, break it. When someone comes from the west and bends, it has its value. Friends who bends for formality, who are bending everywhere, who cannot live without bending, who have become accustomed to bending, I do not give any value to them. I have difficulty teaching Indian monks to bow down. It is easy for Western monks to bend. It takes time, but the day he bends, there is a dignity in his bending on that day. This is the situation of modern human beings. I have high expectations from them. Buddha did not expect so much from his contemporaries. Neither Mahavir nor Jesus. He presented a very black picture of the future. They used to say that the night of the Holocaust is coming. All the enlightened men have been saying that Kali Yuga is coming, in which all religions will be destroyed. I say that the golden age is coming. The future is the golden age.