Ulladu-Narpadu Verse 26: Everything
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 07/05/2017

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

"If the ego, which is the embryo comes into existence, everything—the world, God, bondage and liberation, knowledge and ignorance, and so on—will come into existence. If the ego does not exist, everything will not exist. Hence the ego itself is everything. Therefore, know that scrutinizing ‘What is this ego?’ is alone giving up or renouncing everything!"

The ego can seemingly come into existence and endure only by grasping forms, that is, by attending to second and third person objects. The more it attends to such objects, the more it waxes and grows strong. But since the ego has no form of its own, if it tries to attend to itself, the first person or subject, it will lose its strength, subside and disappear, because without any form to attend to, it cannot stand.

In order to illustrate the properties of the ego described in this and the previous verse, Sri Bhagavan used to tell the story of a way farer who played a prominent part in a marriage celebration. Though he belonged neither to the bride’s party nor to the bridegroom’s party, he pretended to each party that he was an important member of the other. So long as everyone believed him, he thrived happily, bossing over both parties and feasting sumptuously. But as soon as people began to doubt his identity and to enquire who he was, he took to flight and disappeared. Similar is the case with the ego. Though it is neither the body nor the real Self, it pretends to be both. So long as no enquiry is made about its reality, it seems to exist. But as soon as it is scrutinized to find out who it is, it will disappear, being found to be non-existent.

The body and the whole world of manifestation, consisting of so many dyads and triads, are nothing but an expansion of the ego, which is the embryo or seed-form of everything. Since the ego is therefore everything, and since (as revealed in the previous verse) the ego will take to flight when it is scrutinized, being found to be truly non-existent, if one earnestly and vigilantly scrutinizes the ego, one is truly renouncing everything!

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