The Robot's ego || Acharya Prashant, at St. Xavier's, Mumbai (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Thank you.

00:27 I want to ask, a robot doesn't have ego.

00:50 So now what is the intersection between the urge to be towards freedom and your ego?

00:57 You could say the robo does have an ego planted into it by its designer.

01:11 Therefore the ego of the robo is totally in bondage and therefore choiceless.

01:21 You could either say the robo has no ego and that would be perfectly correct or you could

01:24 say the robo has an ego, a sense of I.

01:29 What is ego?

01:30 A sense of I.

01:33 The robo has an ego that cannot choose.

01:36 We utter I.

01:40 We utter I exist, I am.

01:45 And this I am-ness could either be robotic or real.

01:51 It is robotic when your I am-ness is dependent on others.

01:59 And if you feel threatened that if the other disappears or withdraws, the I am-ness itself

02:08 will disappear.

02:11 That's the slave ego.

02:13 For example, I am rich.

02:18 What is the ego?

02:19 The I am thing is the ego.

02:23 And if the ego says I am rich and if the riches vanish for some reason, some reason, a stock

02:30 market crash let's say, the fellow says oh my god I am gone because who was I, the rich

02:37 one and the riches have gone so I am dead.

02:41 I am rich.

02:42 Now strike out the word rich.

02:45 What remains?

02:46 Nothing.

02:47 That's false ego.

02:52 But most of us choose to live in this kind of false and dependent ego.

03:00 Real ego is self-dependent, free.

03:07 It does not find it necessary to identify itself with something.

03:14 It does not experience a kind of vacuum that it must compulsorily fill up with something,

03:25 anything, some trash.

03:30 Many of us for example might be finding it difficult to just sit silently and listen.

03:37 Because in the moment of silence you have to say I am.

03:41 In fact you don't even say I am, there is just silence.

03:45 And that's a threat to the ego because the ego must say something.

03:48 I am X, I am Y.

03:49 So the ego chooses to say I am gossiping.

03:53 Now gossip makes the ego feel alive.

03:56 Oh I exist.

03:57 Otherwise there is the danger of inner death.

04:02 Obviously a false death.

04:04 No real danger actually.

04:06 Do you get this?

04:10 The way we are, the way we are born, we are born with the sense of I am.

04:19 It is this sense of I am that works all life to gain fulfillment.

04:28 Being unfulfilled is our condition right since birth.

04:35 But we choose because of ignorance, fulfillment from the wrong kind, not even wrong, useless

04:44 kind of sources.

04:47 We choose to be associated with something that will fail in delivering fulfillment.

04:56 So I am rich or I am traveling.

04:57 I am a tourist.

04:58 I am a husband.

05:00 I am a lover.

05:01 I am educated.

05:02 I am intelligent.

05:03 I am Hindu.

05:06 I am Muslim.

05:07 I am male.

05:08 I am female.

05:09 I am smart.

05:14 We want at all moments to associate ourselves with a certain identity in the hope that the

05:24 association will bring fulfillment.

05:27 That association does not bring fulfillment because it is an exercise in the wrong direction.

05:32 We require not association, but actually dissociation that is called freedom.

05:41 Freedom is to dissociate yourself from all your dependencies.

05:46 Would you remember this?

05:49 Freedom is to dissociate yourself from your dependencies.

05:52 Whereas the ego is constantly clamoring for more and more dependencies.

06:00 Even the things that you call as your assets actually become your dependencies.

06:06 For example, I own a Rolls Royce.

06:14 In language, I seem to be implying that I am the master of the car.

06:19 But tell me, one day the Rolls Royce isn't visible.

06:22 Something has happened and you need to go from place A to place B and all that is available

06:29 is a humble hero splendor.

06:34 What will happen to you?

06:37 Think of your condition.

06:39 Now who is the master and who is the slave?

06:43 Who is the master?

06:44 You the owner of the car?

06:46 No.

06:47 The car became so important to you, you got dependent and now when the car is not there,

06:51 the car is not suffering.

06:52 You are suffering.

06:53 So who is the master?

06:56 The car is the master.

06:58 The ego chooses to associate, associate, achieve, obtain, accomplish, thinking that all these

07:04 associations will give it fulfillment.

07:07 No, they don't.

07:10 Freedom comes from dissociation and dissociation does not mean that you throw your Rolls Royce

07:19 away.

07:21 Freedom simply means that internally you are not dependent on the car for your identity.

07:28 The car is there if it needs to be.

07:33 I don't think mostly it needs to be there, Rolls Royce kind of thing.

07:39 But even if it is there, it is at your periphery, mental periphery.

07:45 It does not become so important to you that you keep it at the center of your life.

07:52 Similarly with persons, you start idolizing someone.

07:59 You call someone as your role model and that person becomes so important to you.

08:07 Or because I am talking to young people, you fall in love and that person becomes your

08:13 entire universe.

08:17 If not the entire universe, at least the center of your universe.

08:23 That's the way of the ego, to depend, to constantly experience a hollow and look towards the world

08:32 to somehow fill up that hollow.

08:35 Can this fill up my hollow?

08:36 I want to attain this.

08:37 So I work very hard to earn money to have this, hoping that this will reduce my feeling

08:44 of being unfulfilled.

08:48 Rolls Royce, a higher degree, a better paying job, a bigger house, a new boyfriend, all

08:59 these are in the same category.

09:01 The ego is using them to somehow get rid of its state of incompleteness.

09:09 But these efforts do not succeed.

09:13 What the ego really wants is freedom, not association.

09:18 More associations will not make you feel better.

09:25 Freedom from associations is what makes you come alive and freedom from associations does

09:32 not mean being a loner.

09:35 It simply means not being a slave.

09:40 Can't you be in a relationship without being a slave?

09:45 Can't there be a healthy and free relationship?

09:48 Or do you really have to become somebody's pet dog for the relationship to exist?

09:57 Right?

09:58 So that's the choice that you have.

10:01 Do you want to live in freedom or do you want to chase associations, assets, accomplishments

10:08 all your life?

10:10 The more you chase, the more you will be disappointed and suffer.

10:20 Is this making sense or is it just too much and too fast?

10:31 Not sure.

10:34 I hope this at least gives you a start.

10:41 You are young, you have a long way to go and you have time.

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