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Observing the world, one comes to the ego. Observing ego, one comes to the Self || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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Ego
Love
Observation
Concepts
Self-knowledge
Daily Life
Liberation
Watchfulness
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Acharya Prashant addresses a question regarding whether love is the death of the ego and if such a state constitutes liberation. He points out that the questioner is operating entirely within concepts, which are the primary diet of the ego. The ego thrives on defining one abstract term in relation to another, such as defining love as the absence of ego and ego as the absence of love, without having an independent understanding of either. He warns that using fancy words like enlightenment or emancipation only serves to strengthen the ego by making it feel more knowledgeable.