DISCOURSES Volume II - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

The Nature of the Egoand its TerminationPART ITHE EGO AS THE CENTRE OF CONFLICTIN the .pre-human stage consciousness has experiences, but theseexperiences are not explicitly brought into relation with a central"I." The dog is angry, but he does not continue to feel, "I amOrigin of the egoangry." Even in his case we find that he learnsthrough some experiences and thus bases theaction of one experience on another, but this action is a result of asemi-mechanical tension of connected imprints or sanskaras. It isdifferent from the intelligent synthesis of experiences which thedevelopment of I-consciousness makes possible. The first step insubmitting the working of isolated impressions to intelligentregulation consists in bringing them all into relation with thecentre of consciousness which appears as the explicit limited ego.The consolidation of the ego-consciousness is most clear anddefined from the beginning of human consciousness.Human consciousness would have been nothing morethan a repository for the accumulated imprints of varied exper-Process of egoformationiences, if it had not also contained the principleof ego-centred integration,