Where did ego come from?
Today my mind wishes to dive deep
into the topic of where did ego emerge from? Or rather how did the ego arrive
in first place and how did it start becoming stronger or bigger?
If we look back, we all started
as a child knowing nothing. Just playing, having fun, and loving. Yes that’s
most important, a child can love unconditionally. I see my little nephew who is
only 2.5 years old. Whenever anyone comes to our house she goes and gives
everyone a hug irrespective of who they are. She is so happy to see people and
people love her so much.
From the child’s eyes
When I see a child, I find that
there is nothing imposed on the child. A child does not think what he/she does.
They just do spontaneously. That’s one so important perspective, I find in the
kids. They are not at all thinking about anything before acting. That’s why we
love them so much. So they are working from a region of no thought. They do not
have logic, yet we love them. They do not know business, yet we love them. They
do not know math’s English, General Knowledge, information or technology. Yet
we love them.
Below 2 years, the children don’t
even know words. Yet they will creatively paint something, if you give them
colors. They will lovingly sing a tune which they might have heard somewhere.
They will happily dance to the tune of something without even worrying about
anything. Children will never let your spirit down. Children are happy and
loving even without knowing the words. We know so many words, so much
information, yet we are unhappy, depressed, worried and suffering from anxiety.
We have forgotten living life like the child, yet we all were child once in our
lives. This is perhaps because of the subject of our discussion "EGO".
Then where is ego in a little child?
Ego is what we develop right from
the childhood age when we start from school. There are good students and there
are poor students. There is competition, there is gap, and there is fear of
losing out in the run. All of this accumulates, with competitive exams, few students
making to the top colleges. Then comes inferiority complex and the “I am better
than the rest" mind frames.
We can never find a little child
who is egoistic. Little children are happy go lucky and they can laugh, cry and
express fully. With age, time, we adults suppress our feelings and that’s when
the burden/load starts increasing. Any chance we get to listen to a kid, will only
make us feel that we really can’t answer their stupid silly questions. Really a
child's world is so beautiful, yet so simple.
Did we feel the children?
When little children are playing
together, they are so vibrant and the amount of energy they radiate is hard to
look away from. Yet we adults will be so worried about our problems and keep
saying that they are small kids, as if they don’t know much. We adults, what
have we done to ourselves?
Where did we lose ourselves? Such a beautiful truth, that we were all once
a child and we were all the same. Yet as we grow up, so many differences pop up in our mind. Jealousy, hatred, selfishness pile up and robs us of this beautiful side of us.
Why not awaken the children in us?
Why not live life like the children?
Where are we in this universe?
Can we really feel that how small
a part we are of this universe? Such huge galaxies, universe, stars and we are one tiny object in a massive planet called Earth. We are a very small part of a very huge infinitesimal source, which we sometimes call God.
In God's world, we are really small beings, and all we can do is to love each other as our own. If we feel, we all have a possibility to get back to where we started from? Maybe that’s why Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven belongs to the children.
Yes we are all God's children.
My prayer
I pray we all remember the child
in us in every small activity of life and then life would be so much fun, so
much creative and so much fulfilling. God is in every one of the attributes
that makes something beautiful. The flowers, the wind, the rivers, the trees,
the seas, the mountains have been silently communicating with all of us all the
time. All we can try is to give them a chance, rather in better words, “Let’s give God a chance!!”
