Because of ego, we experience pain. When we empower ourselves with our ego, then we are overpowered by it . To get beyond ego, we have to embrace, with the greatest humility, our real nature, our noble qualities, our divine self. Divine self is attained through the practice of true humility, because it is true humility which gives energy to our noble qualities. Only true humility has the power to open up a new dimension for us so that we can experience our noblest qualities.
True humility removes pride from our personality.
In this higher dimension, we achieve awareness of our Absolute Self. In whatever duty we perform, in whatever service we render, in whatever work we accomplish, in whatever studies we pursue, whenever we accept the excellence of our Supreme nature, then ego is not prominent. It is the very process of pursuing excellence that makes us forget ego. But when we attain that excellence, we easily become a victim of our own ego satisfaction. We look for recognition as the president of a company, or as a millionaire, or because we live in high-class society, or because we are the best skater, or because we can do the best hatha yoga.