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Spiritual Experiences and the Ego

Freedom from Ego in Sadhana
A certain exaltation of the being comes naturally with the
stronger experiences and the sense of marvel or miracle may
go with it, but there should be no egoistic feeling in the exal-
tation.
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What you have to be careful about is, when the feeling of power
and strength comes into you or when you have experiences,
not to allow it to be seized on by any kind of egoistic or vital
desire, pride, ambition, wish to dominate others — even if it
takes the garb of doing the Mother’s work, — for this is your
great weakness which always gets in and spoils your progress.
Also when you have experiences, do not allow yourself to get
exalted and excited by them so as to lose discrimination; for,
if you do, then even though the experiences when they begin
may be of the right kind, the vital forces take advantage of the
excitation and rush in with their own deformations. Remain al-
ways calm, collected, quiet within, vigilant — discriminate al-
ways. The progress so made may be more slow or seem so; but
it is more sure.
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A true spiritual experience must be free from the claim of the
ego. What the ego can do however is to get proud of having
the experience and think, “What a great one am I.” Or it may
think, “I am the Self, the Divine, so let me go and do what I
will, for it is the Divine who wills in me.” It is only if the experi-
ence of Self imposes silence on the other parts and frees the
psychic that the ego disappears. Even if not ego itself, numer-

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