Comments on: The egoism that lurks…

By: mil

mil — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:39:07 +0000

For those two descriptions we have two wonderful words in Sanskrit (which I’m afraid Ayn Rand couldn’t quite comprehend in their classical sense, though I personally have been a fan of hers): अहम् (Ahum), and अहंकार (Ahankar). The later is the personification of the former.

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:32:58 +0000

austere: yup, quite a bad habit..

kavita: oh, brilliant.. that, i guess is the definition of forgiveness that would answer my query. thanks

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:31:26 +0000

mil: ‘Your consciousness of your own identity’ or ‘An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others’. in this post, i was referring to the latter.

e: well said, though Rand wouldn’t go there at all.. nice to see you around

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:28:12 +0000

anoop: you’ve answered yourself, and i agree

ideasmith: its there, but ‘not always there’

By: Kavita Rayirath

Kavita Rayirath — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:04:26 +0000

Someone once told me this and I believe in it.

Forgiveness, simply put, is giving up the right to punish someone.

Often we say, “ok I forgive you”, but hold it like a sword over the person the next time something happens or as a constant warning e.g. I let it go last time, or I stuck on even though, don’t repeat this again, I’ll forgive you this one time etc etc/ – we punish people because we feel, for that moment, morally the higher person in that relationship.

The day we give up that right to punish someone, in mind or by words, we have truly forgiven.

By: austere

austere — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:31:25 +0000

The “I” would creep in.
Agree.

By: e

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:21:40 +0000

I think Meer said it best in what to me is an essay in verse on the sufist way of life:

“Ishq mein jee ko sabr-o-taab kahan,
Unn sai aankhein milee to khwaab kahan /
Hastee apnee hai beechh mein pardaa,
Ham na hovein to phir hijaab kahaan”

I doubt Ayn Rand could have said it any better than that

By: mil

mil — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:45:33 +0000

What is ego?

By: Ideasmith

Ideasmith — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:54:50 +0000

Not an Ayn Rand fan here but I see your point, all of them indeed. As for forgivness, what planet would that live on? Not mine, anyway. Good post, if not a little on the serious side for you. I’m missing the characteristic ‘until next time,…’ manuism.

By: aNoop aka --xh--

aNoop aka --xh-- — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:25:31 +0000

why Ego is always an enemy? personally, i think there is positive ego and negative ego.
I think, to love others, one should love him/herself first. If you cant love you, how will you love others?
for me, positive ego is the realization of one’s self, it is like a state of being conscious about our own identity…

But on the other hand, the inflated feeling of ones superiority is destructive ego.

and yeah – I am a fan of Ayn Rand…