The Mind is a projector. There is no harm in thinking that you are great. If you are doing great work, you cannot deny it. You know deep inside when you have invented something. You know that I have made google or I have made facebook and it is connecting millions of people and so on. It is not a crime to give yourself a pat at the back. It is normal, it’s natural and it’s human. If for example you see a beautiful site. You are not gonna say oh that’s one ugly side and I don’t want to look at it. That is denial. That is a state of denial. You will say that yes it is beautiful and you move on to next place and the next site may not be as pleasing but still that’s the colour of nature changing.
This thing about Maya is, directly a conglomeration of subconscious impression, tendencies of the mind and conscious view that we have about ourselves. All three when they work together. When somebody is lying on an operation table under the effect of anesthesia, that person does not feel anything. It’s not because they don’t have an ego. It is because the conscious mind is definitely fully into sleep.
Listen to this discourse by Om Swami on illusion and reality.
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