{"id":3203,"date":"2013-07-13T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:46:38","slug":"22-ahankar-vol-writings-in-bengali-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/02-other-editions\/writings-in-bengali-translation\/22-ahankar-vol-writings-in-bengali-translation","title":{"rendered":"-22_Ahankar.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAhankar <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nThe meaning of the word, ahankāra,<\/i> has become so
\ndistorted in our language that often a confusion arises when
\nwe try to explain the main principles of the Aryan Dharma.
\nPride is only a particular effect of the rajasic ego, yet this is
\nThe meaning generally attributed to the word <\/i>Tan’ahkdra;<\/i> any
\ntalk of giving up ahankāra<\/i> brings to the mind the idea of
\ngiving up pride or the rajasic ego. In fact, any awareness of
\n‘I’ is ahankāra.<\/i> The awareness of  ‘ I ‘ is created in the higher
\nknowledge Self and in the play of the three principles of
\nNature, its three modes are revealed: the sattwic ego, the
\nrajasic ego and the tamasic ego. The sattwic ego brings knowledge and happiness. ‘I am receiving knowledge, I am
\nfull of delight’\u2014 these feelings are actions of the sattwic ego.
\nThe ego of the sadhak, the dgyotee the man of knowledge  the disinterested worker is the sattwic ego which hrings
\nknowledge and delight. The rajasic ego stands for action. ‘I
\nam doing the work, I am winning, I am losing, I am making
\neffort, the success in work is mine, the failure is mine, I am
\nstrong, I am fortunate, I am happy, I am unhappy’\u2014 all
\nthese feelings are predominantly rajasic, dynamic and gene-
\nrate desire. The tamasic ego is full of ignorance and inertia.
\n‘I am wretched, I am helpless, I am lazy, incapable and good
\nfor nothing, I have no hope, I am sinking into the lower
\nnature, my only salvation is to sink into the lower nature’\u2014
\nall these feelings are predominantly tamasic and produce
\ninertia and obscurity. Those afflicted with the tamasic ego
\nhave no pride though they have the ego in full measure but
\nthat ego has a downward movement and leads to death and
\nextinction in the void of the Brahman. Just as pride has ego, <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nin the same way humility also has egg; just as strength has
\nego, in the same way weakness also has ego. Those who have
\nno pride because of their tamasic nature are mean, feeble
\nand servile out of fear and despair. Tamasic humility,
\ntamasic forgiveness, tamasic endurance have no value
\nwhatsoever and do not produce any good result. Blessed
\nindeed is he who perceiving Narayana everywhere is humble,
\ntolerant and full of forgiveness. Delivered from all these
\nimpulsions coming from the ego, one who has gone beyond
\nthe spell of the three modes of Nature has neither pride nor
\nhumility. Satisfied with whatever feeling is given to his
\ninstrumental being of life and mind by the universal Shakti of
\n\u2022the Divine and free from all attachment, he enjoys invariable
\n.peace and felicity. The tamasic ego must be avoided in every
\nway. To destroy it completely by awakening the rajasic ego
\nwith the help of knowledge coming from ‘sattwa’ is the first
\nstep towards progress. Growth of knowledge, faith and devotion are the means of liberating oneself from the grip of the
\nrajasic ego. A person predominantly sattwic does not say, ‘I
\nam happy’; he says, ‘Happiness is flowing in my heart’; he
\n, does not say, ‘I am wise’ he says ‘Knowledge is growing in
\nme.’ He knows that this happiness and this knowledge do not
\nbelong to him but to the Mother of the Universe. Yet when
\nin all kinds of feelings there is bondage to the enjoyment of
\ndelight, then the feeling of the man of knowledge or the
\ndevotee is still proceeding from the ego. Simply by saying ‘It
\nis happening in me’ one cannot abolish the ego-sense. Only
\nthe person who has gone beyond the modes of Nature has
\ncompletely triumphed over the ego. He knows that the
\n‘Jiva’, the embodied being, is the witness and enjoyer, the
\nSupreme is the giver of sanction, and that Nature is the doer
\nof works, and that there is no ‘I’, all being a play in
\nknowledge and ignorance of the Shakti of the sole Brahman
\nwithout a second. The sense of ego is only a feeling born of <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-180<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nillusion in the nature established in the ‘Jiva’, the embodied
\nbeing. In the final stage this feeling of egoless ness merges
\ninto Sachchidananda, Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. But
\nhaving gone beyond the modes of Nature one who still stays
\nin the divine play by the will of the Lord respects the
\nseparate existence of the Lord and the ‘Jiva’, the embodied
\nbeing, and, considering himself a portion of the Divine in
\nNature, he accomplishes his work in the Lila, the divine play.
\nThis feeling cannot be called the ego. Even the Supreme has
\nthis feeling. There is no ignorance or attachment in Him, but
\nHis state of beatitude instead of being self-abosorbed is
\nturned towards the world. One who possesses this consciousness is indeed a soul liberated in life. Liberation by dissolution can be gained only after the fall of the body. The state of
\nliberation in life can be realised in the body itself <\/font><\/p>\n

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