Swami Vivekananda Ego Quotations

Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will