Sit on your EGO

WELCOME

       Welcome to my selfie thoughts.I was having this crazy idea of putting my thoughts in to words for some days."Let it be a blog" my wife suggested.So I created this blog to share my inner thoughts to a bigger audience than my wife during bed time and to close friends & colleagues during mid day break. I tried different names for this blog but in vain as none are available.My wife came to my rescue with this innovative name.I readily agreed  as this is a season of selfies.

      Yesterday I read in the intranet of our company , under the heading beautiful advises

 ' Sit on your Ego' - one of many advises listed by the contributor of the article.

      I was reading this out to my senior colleague & friend Giri. He interrupted me and asked "whatttt!! Sit on your EGO.Suddenly I remembered a story about Mahaveer -the great saint in Jain tradition.Before attaining  Sainthood he was an emperor.He sacrificed everything-his kingdom,his people,his family and relatives.He sacrificed even his cloths and became Dikambara- one who has only Dik (directions east,north etc) as ambara (dress).There is a statue of him in Sravanabalagula.

This great thapasee & spiritual scholar  did not get realization even after doing all these sacrifices-he was at the verge of realization,but not realized.He continued his thapas with more determination

but in vain. One day he heard an assariry (voice without body-treated as divine voice)."Dismout from the elephant". He was standing on a rock and there was no elephant in his vicinity. Still he climbed down from the rock.Again he heard the same sound "Dismount from the elephant"This time with more clarity.

Suddenly he got realized- the elephant means -the EGO.He was having this spiritual ego that he was a great sacrifice r. And the divine voice was asking him to dismount from that ego on which he was riding.Once he understood the meaning he got realized and became the Great Mahaveer.

I was narrating this story to Giri,but I found him dozed off half way to the narration.Hence I am here and doing the blogging for many to doze off.