“Ego” is not something that you got because you did something well or because you became rich or beautiful or anything else. When you started kicking in your mother’s womb, the ego was born. The very first mistake of getting identified with your physical body means the ego was born. It is a defense mechanism. You got identified with this little body. This little organism has to survive in this vast existence of which you have no perception to even know where it begins and where it ends. Just to survive, you have to project yourself like a big man. So the ego is born. It is a false reality you created just for the sake of survival.

What you are referring to as confidence is a false identity that you created just for the sake of survival. People believe that they need confidence to do something. But if you do things with confidence, you may do stupid things. You do not need confidence to do activity; you just need sense to do activity. Just go and explore; if you can do it, you will do it; if you cannot do it, you will not do it. Just function according to your capabilities, neither confident nor diffident…Only an ego can feel diffident or confident.

Today, there is too much unnecessary talk going on in the world about destroying the ego. This has been picked up from the scriptures. Whenever your personality turns ugly, you call it ego. This is just one more way of passing the buck. When your personality turns ugly, you must just see it as you. If you see, “I am ugly,” you will want to do something about it. You would not want to be that way anymore…But we have evolved so many strategies just to avoid this possibility. At a certain moment, whether you are beautiful or ugly, it is you, isn’t it? Keep it that way. Don’t create things which are not there – your ego, your soul, or something else. The moment you create things like “What is beautiful is my soul, what is ugly is my ego,” no transformation will be possible. If you see: “Whatever nonsense I am, that which is beautiful and that which is ugly in me are both me,” then, what is ugly will naturally start changing – you will have to transform, you can’t help it.

Today in the world, we need to bring about simple sense – life sense. Right now, people only have ego sense, they have no life sense. They are ego sensitive, not life sensitive. When you are like this, you only see yourself as life, no one else is life. You can trample upon anything and anyone. But if you are life sensitive, everything is life in your experience, so you naturally behave very sensibly with every other life around you. The ego will no longer be a problem if you become life sensitive.

Ego is not concerned about what you are doing, ego is always trying to be one up, that's all. It's a very sad way to live.

So the essence of meditation is that it creates a space, a distance between you and what you refer to as your mind...Once this little space between you and the activity of the mind, between you and the activity of the body, arises within you, now the mind is no more a mess. It is a great symphony; it is a tremendous possibility.

Consecration is a live process. It is like this – if you transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, we call this digestion, integration. If you make flesh into mud, we call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty space into a Divine possibility, that is called consecration.

Heaven is attractive only to those who have made a hell out of themselves.

Logic will filter out so much of your life, without which you cannot live.

See, to carry on any kind of logic, you need two; you need you and me to have a logical speech. When you say ‘enlightenment’, you are talking about one. Now, modern science is a logical development, but today physics has reached a point where it is no longer logical.