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hungry, I am thirsty,' the 'I' is transfered to the Prana, youidentify yourself with the Prana; when you say, '[ an angry, Iam lustful', 'I' is transferred to the mind. If you identify withthe Supreme Self, all false identifications will vanish.If you kill the commander of an army, you can very easilysubdue the soldiers. Even So, if you kill thecommander---egoism-in the Adhyatmic battlefield, you canvery easily subdue the soldiers, viz., lust, anger, pride,jealousy, greed, delusion, hypocrisy, who fight for theirmaster-+goism.Try to attain Brahman by means of the first two kinds ofsuperior egoism. tf you are firmly established in that supremeimmaculate state wherein even these two kinds of superioregoism are abandoned one by one, then such a state is theimperishable abode of Brahman. Do not identify the 'I' withthe physical body. Identify yourself with the Supreme Self orPara Brahman.You might have reduced or thinned out your egoism to avery great extent but if you are still susceptible to censure andpraise, know that the subtle egoism is still lurking in you.An aspirant who treads the path of devotion destroys hisegoism through self-surrender or Atma-Nivedana to the Lord.He says "I am Thine my Lord. All is Thine. Thy will bedone." He feels he is an instrument in the hands of the Lord.He dedicates all his actions and the fruits of his actions to theLord. He feels that there is nothing but the Lord, thateverything is done by the Lord, that even an atom cannotmove without Him and that all live, move and have their verybeing in Him alone.A Karma Yogin destroys his egoism through self-sacrifice.A Jnana Yogin kills his egoism through self-denial orself-abnegation, through Vichara and the practice of"Neti-Neti-I am not this body, I am not the mind, I am notPrana, I am not the senses," and through identification withAHAMKARA 243