How Can We Decrease Our Ego, Which Seems to be Increasing Day-by-day?

(This question is part of a mahā satsaṅga or a great spiritual discussion between Swami and several devotees who had come from various places, seeking the clarification of their doubts.)

Swami replied:- Devotion is inversely proportional to ego. Ego makes you to aspire the formation of devotees for you. Devotion makes you to become devotee of God. Several preachers have ego without their consciousness about it, who fall down due to it. The preacher shall feel that he is the servant of God and God is speaking through him. Every day, if you think about God as the overall controller of this universe and if you feel that you are just a zero before God, ego will vanish gradually. Ego is the first problem to hinder your sight of recognition of your contemporary human incarnation. Ravana could not recognize Rama due to ego only. Duryodhana, Shishupaala etc., could not recognize Krishna due to ego only. Ego is followed by jealousy and both together cover your eyes like cataracts to view the divine human form as God. Ego is the form of your total misfortune making you lose the golden opportunity of recognizing the contemporary human incarnation of God present in this world before your eyes.

After death also, you will be in an energetic body going to the upper worlds in which you find the energetic incarnation of God and the ego following you makes you neglect God in energetic medium. Ego makes you lose God here as well as there due to repulsion between common media. Every soul has inherent tendency to rise up and to become more and more famous and this tendency generates and develops the ego. Jesus said that if you multiply as much yourself, you will be reduced down so much by God and if you reduce yourself as much, you will be multiplied so much by God. Miraculous powers achieved by any soul will create climax of ego and the soul becomes a demon to claim himself to be God from whom he got these miraculous powers. Even without miraculous powers, we are not recognizing the human form of God present before us. If we get miraculous powers, what will be the result! Then, we will insult God present before us. Due to this reason only a genuine human incarnation of God does not perform miracles as far as possible and even if the miracles are performed, God will misinterpret the miracles as normal incidents happened accidentally. God knows very well that if one miracle is exhibited, the devotee will cling to Him so much till he uses the miraculous power of God at least to solve one of his worldly problems. Miraculous powers induce ego even in the human being-component of human incarnation as in the case of Parashurama. Ego is more dangerous than cancer.

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