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Abolition of Ego

Individualising oneself — step one

Q: How Can one merge one's separative ego in the Divine
consciousness?

Merge one’s ego in the Divine! But first, one can’t merge one’s
ego in the Divine before becoming completely individualised.
Do you know what it means to be completely individualised?
Capable of resisting all outer influences?
Some days ago I received a letter from someone who told
me that he was very hesitant about reading books of ordinary
literature, for example, novels or dramas, because his nature
had an almost insuperable tendency to receive imprints of the
characters in these books and to begin living the feelings and
thoughts of these characters, the nature of these persons.
There are many more people than one would think who are like
that. They read a book and while they are reading it they feel
within themselves all kinds of emotions, thoughts, desires, in-
tentions, plans, even ideals. They are simply just absorbed in
the reading of the book. They are not even aware of it, because
at least ninety-nine parts of an individual’s character are made
of soft butter — inedible of course... but on which if one press-
es one’s thumb, an imprint is made.
Now, everything is a “thumb”: an expressed thought, a
sentence read, an object looked at, an observation of what
someone else does, and of one’s neighbour’s will. And all these
wills... you know, when one sees them they are all there, like
this, intermingled (Mother intercrosses her fingers), each one
trying to get the uppermost and causing a kind of perpetual
conflict within, outside.... It goes in and out of people like that,

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