The ego is the Destroyer, the principle of separation and disunity. It is antithetical to love. The ego gives the illusion that they have the happiness, but in contact with it there is but ephemeral pleasure. The ego gives the illusion of possessing the love, but this feeling approaching the ego becomes nothing more than a morbid attachment. Divine love immortal soul belongs; selfish attachments and Conditions belong to the ego. Freed from prison false ego (Ahamkara) is the first and most important work to be done by an aspiring spiritualist tradition or any religious path he chooses to follow. Breaking free from Ahamkara not lose our identity, rather it can be revived only when they are less false identifications and masks of personality (Sarvo upadhi vinir muktam). As long as we remain clinging to the ego false and we toyed with it, there will be no way of knowing ourselves, nor to do God's work is serious, demanding, but also beautiful and fascinating. Leads us to see ourselves, others and everything in the world through the eyes of the soul, perceiving them as creatures of God working for His grace and mercy, in harmony with the Whole. In Buddhism the ego is described as the cause of pain and all the evil things we fight with the radical renunciation of the world. Traditions in the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, fought with the renunciation, prayer and fasting. The Franciscan order are the three vows: poverty, chastity and obedience. In Vedanta and Samkhya the ego is regarded as the main cause of avidya, the separation from God, drop and degradation. It is the biggest obstacle to self-realization and happiness, and the force that opposes the soul and God 'the main cause of envy and fall of the angels and men: from Lucifer to Macbeth, both in events in ancient and modern. Because the ego becomes Satan and Lucifer Lord Macbeth becomes a person degraded and repulsive. In him, the ego is manifested in the form of his Eve, Lady Macbeth, which stimulates and increases its negative trends. The principle of Eve and Adam in all of us, as well as each of us is the angel, the pure devotee who seeks the liberation of self and others. If we choose to feed the snake, the snake will win.
If we have the angel and his spiritual nature of light, the angel will win. In each of us there are Vitra and Indra, Lucifer and Michael. Our fate depends on the choice we make, whether to one or to the other. Along with the pride and arrogance, the false ego is the main feature of the demonic, asura, which literally means no light. Humility is the opposite approach and, in part, is also the antidote. In a famous metaphor in which Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu instructs his chief disciple, Srila Rupa Goswami, devotion, Bhakti, aspiring spiritualist is compared to a tender seedling, bhakti lata bija, surrounded by weeds that tend to spread the ego and destroy it. We must with all our strength to care for and protect this tender seedling of Bhakti practicing the spiritual discipline (sadhana) in a consistent manner (abhyasa) and emotional detachment from the phenomenal (Vairagya), developing the pure desire to serve and offer to God
L'offerta al Supremo di tutto ciò che si possiede è definita da Shri Caitanya come la più alta forma di rinuncia: yukta vairagya. La malapianta dell'ego è sradicata dalla pratica costante della sadhana bhakti con umiltà e in spirito di servizio. Nella vaidhi sadhana bhakti la centralità delle pratiche spirituali è costituita dall'Harinama japa o Harinama Sankirtana, l'implorazione di Dio attraverso i Santi Nomi: servire la Divinità invocando il Suo Nome, poiché Dio e il Suo Nome sono identici; il Nome stesso è manifestazione divina. Per invocare il Santo Nome con purezza, senza un atteggiamento offensivo, è richiesta umiltà. Quest'ultima deriva dalla consapevolezza della nostra natura di servitori di Dio; è l'umiltà della parte che si rapporta al Tutto, a Dio, alle Sue creature e al Suo creato. L'umiltà si sviluppa imparando a rispettare e a valorizzare tutti gli esseri, chiunque essi siano, a prescindere dal corpo che temporaneamente indossano. Solo allora, per misericordia divina, le offese che minacciano la nostra realizzazione spirituale cesseranno e sarà possibile cantare il Santo Nome in estasi.
The ego is the Destroyer, the principle of separation and disunity. It is antithetical to love. The ego gives the illusion that they have the happiness, but in contact with it there is but ephemeral pleasure. The ego gives the illusion of possessing the love, but this feeling approaching the ego becomes nothing more than a morbid attachment. Divine love immortal soul belongs; selfish attachments and Conditions belong to the ego. Freed from prison false ego (Ahamkara) is the first and most important work to be done by an aspiring spiritualist tradition or any religious path he chooses to follow. Breaking free from Ahamkara not lose our identity, rather it can be revived only when they are less false identifications and masks of personality (Sarvo upadhi vinir muktam). As long as we remain clinging to the ego false and we toyed with it, there will be no way of knowing ourselves, nor to do God's work is serious, demanding, but also beautiful and fascinating. Leads us to see ourselves, others and everything in the world through the eyes of the soul, perceiving them as creatures of God working for His grace and mercy, in harmony with the Whole. In Buddhism the ego is described as the cause of pain and all the evil things we fight with the radical renunciation of the world. Traditions in the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, fought with the renunciation, prayer and fasting. The Franciscan order are the three vows: poverty, chastity and obedience. In Vedanta and Samkhya the ego is regarded as the main cause of avidya, the separation from God, drop and degradation. It is the biggest obstacle to self-realization and happiness, and the force that opposes the soul and God 'the main cause of envy and fall of the angels and men: from Lucifer to Macbeth, both in events in ancient and modern. Because the ego becomes Satan and Lucifer Lord Macbeth becomes a person degraded and repulsive. In him, the ego is manifested in the form of his Eve, Lady Macbeth, which stimulates and increases its negative trends. The principle of Eve and Adam in all of us, as well as each of us is the angel, the pure devotee who seeks the liberation of self and others. If we choose to feed the snake, the snake will win. 
If we have the angel and his spiritual nature of light, the angel will win. In each of us there are Vitra and Indra, Lucifer and Michael. Our fate depends on the choice we make, whether to one or to the other. Along with the pride and arrogance, the false ego is the main feature of the demonic, asura, which literally means no light. Humility is the opposite approach and, in part, is also the antidote. In a famous metaphor in which Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu instructs his chief disciple, Srila Rupa Goswami, devotion, Bhakti, aspiring spiritualist is compared to a tender seedling, bhakti lata bija, surrounded by weeds that tend to spread the ego and destroy it. We must with all our strength to care for and protect this tender seedling of Bhakti practicing the spiritual discipline (sadhana) in a consistent manner (abhyasa) and emotional detachment from the phenomenal (Vairagya), developing the pure desire to serve and offer to God 
L'offerta al Supremo di tutto ciò che si possiede è definita da Shri Caitanya come la più alta forma di rinuncia: yukta vairagya. La malapianta dell'ego è sradicata dalla pratica costante della sadhana bhakti con umiltà e in spirito di servizio. Nella vaidhi sadhana bhakti la centralità delle pratiche spirituali è costituita dall'Harinama japa o Harinama Sankirtana, l'implorazione di Dio attraverso i Santi Nomi: servire la Divinità invocando il Suo Nome, poiché Dio e il Suo Nome sono identici; il Nome stesso è manifestazione divina. Per invocare il Santo Nome con purezza, senza un atteggiamento offensivo, è richiesta umiltà. Quest'ultima deriva dalla consapevolezza della nostra natura di servitori di Dio; è l'umiltà della parte che si rapporta al Tutto, a Dio, alle Sue creature e al Suo creato. L'umiltà si sviluppa imparando a rispettare e a valorizzare tutti gli esseri, chiunque essi siano, a prescindere dal corpo che temporaneamente indossano. Solo allora, per misericordia divina, le offese che minacciano la nostra realizzazione spirituale cesseranno e sarà possibile cantare il Santo Nome in estasi. 
