The person can never be ego-free || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: How can one become an ego-free person?

Speaker: A person can never be ego-free.

What do you mean by a person? A person is nothing but a mind occupied by the influences of others. The word person is a technical word. Please appreciate this.

Person means a mind occupied by the influence of others; and hence the word personality flows from the word person. It is the person that has personality. How can a person ever be ego – free? What is the ego? Is it not an agglomeration of all that has come to you from outside? Your concept of yourself supplied to you from outside, from somebody else, right?

Understand this: The *person is full of ego*.

A mind that is dominated by others is an egoistic mind; do you see this? And this is the mind of a person. So, person means ego.

So, if the question is that how can the person be ego-free. My answer is, never.