Inferior Ego
The inferior ego that is trying to show humbleness is also ego.
Introduction
Low self-esteem means showing yourself or imagining yourself to be less than what you are.
You judge yourself based on your lifestyle rather than your life.
High self-esteem is imagining yourself to be much more than what you are. Again, this is also based on the opinions of others. You judge yourself based on your lifestyle rather than your life. You weigh yourself by the cars and real estate you have purchased, not by the quality of consciousness you have achieved. The big problem is that you don’t know how to remove your personality and go to the next personality. You don’t know how to use personalities like coats. You are caught in one personality.
If you are polite and humble where you need to be courageous, you are egoistic
Using the wrong personality in the wrong place is what I call ego. Understand, if you are arrogant and violent where you need to be polite and humble, it is being egoistic. If you are polite and humble where you need to be courageous, you are egoistic. Und-erstand, we always think, ‘If I am very humble how can I be egoistic?’ Be very clear, ego standing on its head is also ego. It is called ‘inferior ego’.
An example from the life of Ramana Maharishi
One of Ramana Maharishi’s disciples translated one of his books into another language. In the translation, inside the book, his name was also published as the translator. Bhagavan, I don’t feel my name should be publicized…
When the disciple saw the book, he was shocked to see this. He went to the concerned authorities and scolded them for this mistake. He then went and told Ramana Maharishi, ‘Bhagavan, they should not have put my name. I don’t feel my name should be publicized. I am not that kind of person.’
Bhagavan said, ‘The ego that asks for the name to be there and the ego that asks that the name not be there are one and the same. Relax.’ Be very clear, the inferior ego that is trying to show humbleness is also ego.
With a superiority complex, with a violent aggressive ego, at least society will teach you. This ego is very visible. With the humble ego, you will escape from society.
That is more dangerous. It is a cunning ego that can nicely save itself.