“Should I Kill My ‘Outer’ Self?”

By on November 4, 2008 in Balance, Inspiration

Question to Deepak:

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2 Responses to “Should I Kill My ‘Outer’ Self?”

  1. StuRestrup November 4, 2008 at 2:42 pm #

    If we try and kill our outer self or brain then we are like a dog chasing its' tail. It is the ego again trying to come in the backdoor! We must accept our ego and allow it to be. Then we can transcend it. If we are trying to kill it we are not within our true self, we are another form of ego! Let it be as John Lennon would say. It is just an organ and we can transcend it by observing it and allowing it to be. Does the brain control you or do you control your brain. It is a useful tool that we need for motor functions and mathematics and survival. When it comes to seeing reality, it is useless. Allow it to be and use it for what is needed, observe it the rest of the time from your true self and you won't want to kill it! Rather you can laugh at it and be amused by it.

    Stu Restrup

  2. Chatterjee November 5, 2008 at 2:10 am #

    The core self without the brain (in fact the whole body) is incomplete. They are complimentry to each other. Take the case what happens after death when the body is totally nonexistent. Here, who is asking/observing whom ? Yet, after death I am not totally finished/extinct, am I ? I still exist as a unit of energy (call it soul,atma…) in ecto-plasmic body, in its own vibretion/fre

    The ego too is an intrigal and essential part of us. To be at all concious that 'I exist' I need my ego.This ego is no more a problem to us when adjusted at a sublimited level, and this can happen only when we can connect ourselves with Him meaningfully. For me to feel the enlighting pleasure of being connected to Him we need all our nerves, cells (the body in fit condition) and what it takes to have our quantam physics going.

    Hence, no question of killing the 'outer self '

    V C