In life we come across somebody who behaves a little differently, he looks as if he is controlling the whole world he shows that he is always right and the rest of them are not, and he wants to push his ideas across otherwise if people don't understand he gets angry, such personalities when we see we label them as egoistic people, these people as such that others would like to keep away from them because this ego creates a hell of a problem for others living in other people's lives and so others say that we don't have an ego but he has an ego.
But now let's understand how to identify whether you have an ego or you don't have an ego according to yoga, every human health ego proportions vary, its manifestation varies but ego is there, of course, the born baby has no ego, a little child 1-year-old who has done some mischief and father spanks him and child cries for 2 minutes but again goes and hugs father and he has no regret about it, he doesn’t remember that father made him because he has no ego, we tell them that look this is your bag, this is your sister, this is your house, this is your school, so this me and mine comes and ego starts, it's my place, my house, my mother, my this, my that, and ego starts but that is required to live life.
(Is it possible to be egoless?)
You should know where you have to go, you should know which school you are in, you should know what your responsibilities are and so on, and so forth so this me and mine is important that proportion is important, but when it goes out of proportion and as we grow big our ego also grows big, me and mine increases, so many things become mine, this is my pen, this is my house,, this is my place and so on and don’t like others to take over, sometimes some people can share but still me and mine remains, so now yoga says that as long as this me and mine is to understand what I am and what is my duty is what am I supposed to do that is fine, but when I impose my ideas on others and am not listening at others I am just imposing my ideas and others, my ego is going more maybe I will put it indifferent words if someone says something and I get hurt my ego is high, if someone composes his idea and you are fighting against it your ego is high, you do what you want to do but don't get affected by it, if you get hurt if you worry if you get tensed if you are upset with situations if you cry because situations don't match with your thinking, all this reflects that you have ego and every human has this ego, but now you have to work at it, we have to understand that there is something like self-esteem self-respect somebody tells you are not doing your work properly, now if ego then you get hurt if self-esteem then you listen this is his opinion you don't have to do anything you improve.
(What does Egolessness mean?)
(Does meditation get rid of the ego?)
If when things don't go right we get disturbed all these things means we have evil but let the world say anything I have confidence in myself I know what I am doing I have thought before doing anything and I am moving ahead, hurdles are going to be on the path, I know how to move around and I'm overhead, not dependent on others giving me applause or others telling me good about myself not dependent on anyone I am moving ahead because I am confident I have willpower and that's how the self-esteem comes, so try and develop more self-esteem and reduce the ego, ego is glacier it is a big hurdle on the path of progress but person should be a humble person should be a calm person should be giving respect to others person should be gently person should see good only in others and learn to live with anybody as they are, that is self-esteem so let's work on ourselves.