Yoga for Ego & Greed Management

Yoga for Ego & Greed Management | 7INTRODUCTIONWhat Ego is? Ego often is cited as ostentation, arrogance,which are various forms of Ego. But how does Yoga look atEgo? We all have our mind which is called as Chitta and Antahkarana.Antahkarana has four modifications, four functionaldimensions: Manah, Buddhi, Smriti, Ahankara. Ahankara,Ego. This is the subtle form of vritti. This comes out firstfrom our Anandamaya Kosha. For example, you have gone toa new place and after the every strenuous journey and heavymeal, you had a wonderful sleep and morning you just wakeup at Five ‘O’ clock in the morning. You start thinking wheream I? Then you remember yesterday I came all the way fromChennai to Hyderabad and I had come into this hotel. I amstaying here. All that you remember. Earlier to that remembrancewhat had happened: You just became awake, then ‘I’came up, Aham Vritti. Then came, where am I? What am Idoing? Then the memory starts coming. It is that Ahamvritti,that ‘I’ thought which in Yoga iscalled as Ego. It is a very subtle formof our mind. Out of that the Smriti,memory store comes into picture,then Buddhi, then Manas is formed.So in all our actions and transactionsthere is always the “I”. I am eating, Iam talking, I am interacting, I am urinating,I am speaking. Everywhereis that “I”. But that “I” when it startsYoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 9