Exercising ego - Exercitarea egoului

Oneness with unaspiring people means dining with death. Oneness with aspiring people means dancing with God.

When you are with somebody who has a strong ego, you will consciously or unconsciously be influenced by it. How? By its unlit, obscure, arrogant, aggressive power. His ego will try to make you his slave. While he tries to make you the slave of his ego, from deep within your own ego will come forward to resist him. After a few months or a few years you will try to exercise your own ego by making somebody else your slave. He is fulfilling his ego by exercising on you, and you will try to fulfill your ego by exercising on somebody else, because this is what you have learned from him. But by exercising one's ego one can never be happy and satisfied.  Outwardly he can make you feel or make himself  feel that he is happy, but inwardly he never feels happy. By exercising one's ego nobody can be happy.

You cannot be both

At the same time:

Your mind's over-sized ego-tree

And

Your heart's small happiness-plant.

Unitatea cu oamenii lipsiti de aspiratie inseamna sa iei masa cu moartea. Unitatea cu oamenii care aspira inseamna sa dansezi cu Dumnezeu. 

Atunci cand esti cu cineva care are un ego puternic, constient sau inconstient vei fi influientat de acesta. Cum? De puterea lui intunecata, obscura, aroganta si agresiva. Egoul lui va incerca sa te faca sclavul lui. In timp ce el incearca sa te faca sclavul egoului sau, adanc din interior propriul tau ego va veni la suprafata pentru a-i rezista. Dupa cateva luni sau cativa ani vei incerca sa-ti exersezi propriul tau ego facand pe altcineva sclavul tau. El isi implineste egoul exercitandu-l asupra ta, iar tu vei incerca sa-ti implinesti egoul tau exersand pe altcineva, pentru ca asta este ceea ce ai invatat de la el. Dar prin folosirea egoului nu putem fi fericiti si satisfacuti niciodata. In exterior el poate sa te faca sa crezi si sa se faca si pe el sa creada ca este fericit, dar in interior el nu se simte niciodata fericit. Prin exercitarea egoului nimeni nu poate fi fericit.

Nu poti fi ambele 

In acelasi timp:

Copacul-ego supradimensionat al mintii tale

Si

Mica planta-fericire a inimii tale.

Sri Chinmoy