The usage of “I” starts at a very young age when a child learns to identify itself as a person. It embodies a misperception of who you are, an identity, this is ego.
Ego then is created between the words “I” “Me” “My” “Mine” with ownership of objects and possessions.. My toy, my car, my land or my money.
“I” becomes the only way for you to identify yourself with materialistic items or possessions. Your only sense of identity then is derived from this in your daily lives with culture and belief systems.
When you loose it or when it’s taken away from you, fear and anger comes in the way of you seeing human connection and being yourself.
The object itself does not actually have any form of value but the identity or ego that connects you to it, brings out this reactions.
When a child looses a toy, intense anger or sorrow is shown. But once the toy is replaced that soon disappears. The toy itself was not the cause of it, but the child identifies itself with it as “I” and being a child.
Thus “I” today itself does not stand for you as a Being but you as what you own or possess. “I am this and I am that” doesn’t represent your true self as it’s merely a projection of your outer reality.
Understanding that “I” represents you as a Being first awakens you from a deeper place within you. “I” is not represented with materialistic or ownership but finding goodness, spirituality and love in yourself. Only then you will see goodness in everything else.
We cannot do good to others to find goodness, we have to find it in ourselves first.
When we think or speak of the word “I” at some aspect it’s the egoic self and once we are awaken from it, only then we will see… we are just a being like anything else on earth, a flower, the sea, the sky and the nature.
