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Overcoming the limits of Ego and Personal Effort

Date: 
April 7, 2022
Speaker(s): 
Mr. Garry Jacobs
Notes: 

Ego is the sense of separateness, a fiction of the lower nature. Bondage to the ego is identification and slavery to lower nature. Ego manifests as a sense of physical separateness,  vital desire, emotional attachment, attitude, opinion, etc. Renunciation of the fruits of our action by detachment and offering to the divine -- helps us shed the vital and mental ego of desire and self-esteem. Renunciation of our sense of being the doer of work and action liberates us from the identification with the lower nature and opens us to the action of the Divine Shakti which replaces personal effort by divine action in and through us. Other man's point of view as in Dan's negotiation with Bill on purchase of shares in his company illustrates the great power of detaching from the fruits of work and taking an impersonal standpoint with elevates the whole transaction to a higher plane. When personal effort is exhausted by the lower nature, the consciousness that we are not the doer helps us shift faith and reliance from ourselves and our actions to reliance on the Divine Shakti -- then the exhaustion and fall that commonly follow each progress may be eliminated or diminished or more quickly followed by higher experience. 




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