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Two: Aspects of the Path 91
falsity of the split ego should disappear and the real ego be manifested
in its reality.
In other words, the real “I” which plays the part of the false
“I” should completely forget to play the part and assert itself as
it really is.
It becomes impossible for the real “I” to forget that it is
playing the part of false “I.” But the real “I” tries to forget the
part it plays of the false “I” through action (karma yoga).
For example, take Eruch. His is the real “I” within, but as
Eruch, he is the false “I.” Now the real “I” within Eruch tries to
forget that it is playing only the part of the false “I,” as Eruch.
While trying to do so, the false “I” as Eruch, tries its best to serve
so many other false “I’s.” But the fun is that one false “I” in its
struggle to forget, efface itself, remembers so many other false
“I’s,” while bent upon serving them!
The One Real “I,” which is eternally free, gets apparently
bound by this process, and, it is eternally trying to forget and
trying to remember at one and the same time.
In another type of yoga (bhakti yoga) the real “I,” while
acting the part of the false “I,” tries to worship the real. The
false “I” cannot be anything but false, and it cannot have any
conception of the real “I.” The real “I,” acting as false “I,” forms
a false conception of the real “I.”
Then what does the false “I” say It says, “O Real I! I
worship Thee in all!”
And the tragedy is that when the false “I” prays to and
worships the real “I,” it sees and comes across only the innumerable
false “I’s.” In fact it worships other false “I’s,” rather than
the One and Real “I.”