Conquering ‘self’

‘Self’ is your consciousness of your own identity. As masters say individual identity is polluted, or rather impure, until it identifies with the universal self. Otherwise, individual self is stained and hence away from the core.

Universal self is nothing but the one and only sea of ‘universal conscience’ existing, in which every ‘individual conscience’ floats. Individual conscience is ones self. So for purifying individual self (identity) one needs to merge its individual conscience with the universal conscience. 

How is it possible? 

Let’s explain the concept of ‘universal conscience’ a bit further. 

‘Universal conscience’ is like a white screen on which a feature film is projected. And every actions and actors of the film resemble the impure ‘individual consciences’. Before the film starts and after it ends, the only existing phenomenon is the ‘white screen’. The ‘white screen’ is not affected by any of the actions, romances or murders taking place onscreen during the film projection. Even after the film ends, it remains the same, unaffected. 

That which was in the past and is in the present and will be in the future is truth; as truth is immortal. Immortal is unaffected, unpolluted and ubiquitous. 

Consequently, ‘universal conscience’ is unaffected by any actions of the ‘individual consciences’. It is immortal, eternal and ever remaining. On identifying this ‘phenomenon’ each individual conscience will have an urge to merge with the universal conscience for they have an urge to become immortal from mortal. 

Conquering ‘self’ means merge of an individual ‘self’ with the universal ‘self’. And the ‘merge’ occurs when ‘individual’ self becomes unaffected by the ‘impurities’ of worldly ‘ups’ and ‘downs’.  

‘Be like a floating wood on the ever changing ocean of life and never be anxious where the wind of circumstances carry you with’, say the masters.