Is Ego The Chittachaya [Reflected Consciousness]?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

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Film Seb The ego has identified with that.

For example,

There is a lake outside here.

Now the sun is shining very brightly.

The afternoon sun is reflecting in the lake.

If the lake says,

Oh see I am bright,

I am luminous,

My quality is to shine.

Yes,

This is who I am.

Bright,

Luminous,

Consciousness,

Awareness.

Do you get it?

That is what has happened.

So the lake has identified with the reflection,

The reflected light and said this is I.

No,

But that is not I.

Lake is not pure consciousness.

Pure consciousness is pure consciousness.

Yes,

And if I,

The ego and the intellect has limitations,

You know,

In this body-mind complex,

It can never know that which is more superior,

The superior intelligence to it.

It can never know it,

But it can feel the effects of it and the effects are the Chitta Chhaya,

The reflection,

The feeling of conscious,

Being conscious in the body,

Being conscious in the mind.

This feeling of being conscious is the effect I feel of Brahman,

Of consciousness,

Of awareness,

Of knowingness.

It is that district of Chaya.

It is that district of Chaya.