Observing the world, one comes to the ego. Observing ego, one comes to the Self || Acharya Prashant

Question: If love is death of ego, then how will we live? Man is made of only these things. So, the only thing left will be ‘soul’. So we can say that we have moksha (liberation).

Speaker: The question is: If love is death of ego, then a loving man will be just soul. So, is love moksha (liberation)?

Everything that you just said, is a concept in your mind. Ego lives on concepts, ego lives on thoughts. Concepts are thoughts. What is the definition of a ‘concept’? Where you define A, in terms of B, A=f (B), and you define B, in terms of C, B=f(C), and you define C, in terms of D, and ultimately, everything is defined in terms of everything else, and nothing has any independent definition of its own. That is the definition of a ‘concept’.

So what is ‘love’? Death of the ego. And what is ‘ego’? Loveless-ness. ‘Love’ is defined in terms of ‘ego’, ‘ego’ is defined in terms of ‘love’. And what are both defined in terms of? – That you have no idea of. Because there is nothing independent in your life, hence there is no independent definition in your life either.

Then you said, “Moksha,” enlightenment, emancipation, whatever that means. Now what does that mean to you? Again, egoless-ness. Whatever you are saying, is just ego. What do you mean by ‘death’? What do you mean by ‘love’? Don’t start with all that. Don’t go into fancy words like ‘enlightenment’.