Traits Of The Ego

In this conversation, spiritual teacher and guide Gautam Sachdeva talks about the traits of the Ego, and in the context of Sai Baba's teaching, reminds us that surrender means dropping away of the Ego and all its identifications.
He discusses what is true humility, the normal Ego versus the Spiritual Ego, Duality with its polaric aspects, walking the middle path to reach stillness, and as an exercise in self-enquiry being aware of the reactivity of the Ego and noting all that triggers it.
Chapters in this clip:
0:00 - Intro (Please enable captions) (कैप्शन सक्षम करें)
0:56 - What 'surrendering to Baba' implies
1:58 - Kabir's doha on the ego and God
2:45 - The ego likes to feel special
3:26 - True humility according to Ramesh Balsekar
4:31 - The normal ego and the spiritual ego
5:38 - The inverted ego
5:55 - Duality and the polaric aspects of life
6:23 - Taking the middle path to experience stillness
7:36 - Being aware of why an experience needs to be shared
13:40 - The ego's disproportionate reactivity to events
14:35 - Making a note of your triggers as a spiritual exercise
18:12 - Slowly breaking the toxic crust around the ego
18:36 - Bhakti and one's relationship to Baba
20:15 - Why people sometimes take a new name
22:24 - Aai as a shining example of humility
25:25 - Outro (please support our work)
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हम जिन फिल्मों का निर्माण करते हैं वे भक्तों को प्रेरित करने के लिए बनाई जाती हैं, और तथ्यात्मक रूप से सही होते हुए भी हम करते हैं
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[@devivelu4667]

Hi, this is really useful for me. I don't know about others. It clearly explains how to overcome the ego problems and clarifies my doubts as i have recently started my spiritual journey. Hope you keep posting many vidoes and we all need your support. Thanks a lot for you and your team for this hardwork. May god bless you all.🙏

[@lakshmimalladi137]

Om Sai Ram

[@padmajavadada8650]

S, I need to deal with my ego to be a spiritual being. Thanks to both of u Goutamji n Nikhil team. 🙏

[@physics19941994]

These talks are gems.. Thank you Goutam Ji & Nikhil Ji. Thank you Baba Jai Gurudev

[@omsairam9367]

Om sai namo nam sadguru sai Namo nam jai jai jai sai namo nam 🤗

[@jidnyasam9013]

You look at gautam and you want to live life like him. He radiates calmness. There's so much talk about spirituality everywhere, the simplicity of it gets lost in that chaos. Unshakeable stillness and calmness these guys radiate. Gautam for example. Thank you for bringing them to us Nikhil. 🙏😊💫

[@Pinkypraggy]

As Aai says ,we are just the dust of His Holy Feet🙏. Humility is a trait,only a true devotee can be that humble.Thisvpodcasg was truly enlightening.Baba had always given experiences to people who have Faith in Him n ever chant His name with humility.It is His Will and always will be His will🙏🙏Nanya charanam mamah Sai🙏

[@arunmeenakshi5386]

🙏🙏Om Sai Ram🙏🙏

[@nikhilsomnathe1722]

Om Sai Ram 🌹🙏

[@binapatel9379]

🙏 Om Sai Ram 🙏

[@sanjithrajesh]

You both of them are real teacher sent by baba who show true path to pure ourself timely . Whc is much needed to all . Thank you baba bless you . We need more on this Ego

[@guruprasadacharya5645]

Om Sairam

[@priya2324]

Om sai ram 🙏😇❤️

[@manasiparadkar5470]

🙏🏻☺️ Om Sai Ram ☺️🙏🏻

[@pushpagupta9128]

Om sai ram💕💞🙏🙏

[@shavetagupta6923]

That's something my ears would always like to listen...that we are dust of Baba's feet and not the devotees, unless Baba accept us as his Devotee, which is a very high order in the path of true Bhakti...May all of us get closer to his feet by surrendering all the ego soon,may we never take a advantage to call ourselves a chosen one.... Thanks for the most beautiful knowledge provided through this channel.Baba bless all.,🙏🌺

[@sailucy832]

Om sai ram

[@VivekRatanSinha]

Profound wisdom. Much more on this topic of Ego will be much appreciated.

[@omsairam9367]

Jai Shri Hari..jai Mata Di 🌼🌹😘😘🤗

[@claudelebel49]

positive and negative self-importance. two sides of the same coin. " see the selfish motive behind every action and watch it until it dissolves" Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@piyaoberoii]

Yes, request you to please continue more on Ego, looking forward. OM SAI RAM

[@amusunkhe5017]

It’s always wonderful to listen to your meaningful conversations, thank you so much Nikhilji and Gautamji 🙏🏼 Now i will never forget the meaning of true surrender ever - Jab mein tha tab Hari nahi, ab Hari hai mein nahi 🙏🏼

[@ankitanand143]

Yes Kabir das's wonderful words....I would like to add another Doha of his 'कबीर मन निर्मल भया, जैसे गंगा नीर पाछे पाछे हरि फिरें, कहत कबीर कबीर।।'

[@erer782]

Yes i loved that doha🙏🏻

[@sd7317]

@@ankitanand143 what does this Doha mean ? pls explain 🙏

[@rudrasingh3435]

It is this me that needs to be dropped... Merge into SAINATH MAHARAJ.. There will be no me at all... Thank you Nikhil Ji and Gautam Ji for this beautiful podcast... Eye opener.. OM SAI PARABRAHMANA NAMAH...

[@nethra_here6032]

Om sai ram Om sai ram Om sai ram

[@ankitanand143]

I would like to add another Doha of Kabir das 'कबीर मन निर्मल भया, जैसे गंगा नीर पाछे पाछे हरि फिरें, कहत कबीर कबीर।।'

[@nikhilchauhan3182]

Beautiful lines Ankit... I would like to add one more . Maaya taje to kya hua, Maan taja na jaye. Maan(ego) bade munivar gaye, Maan saban ko khaye.

[@erer782]

It's Baba's own channel. Last year I started to watch this channel. So much of guidence received from every one featured here & team "Sai Baba's Devotee speaks"🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@sonudas1934]

Thank you nikhil ji and gautam ji for putting this podcast once again 🙏 it's telling me to behave in certain way, thank you sai devotees speaks team 🙏 and thank you baba🙏 om sai ram 🙏🙂🦋

[@riddhisingh5051]

💐😊 Om Sai Ram !!! 🙏🏻🌹. Such a beautiful words Aai in last mins ....waiting to get more on ego

[@NS-gf5mv]

Can't express the significance of this conversation..such a complicated idea that we struggle with, made so crystal clear with your soft words. Thank you Gautam Sir and Nikhil ji. Pranam.

[@shobhanakhot4331]

Nice episode really those who misbhave or falsely create or mislead others just to show they are saibabas loved ones will try and become true followers of saibaba after listening to this beautiful and straight forward episode thanks to both happy diwali

[@MRNG1114]

ஓம் சாய் ராம் 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@surya.kasibhatla]

Great work! I feel Baba himself is teaching us

[@ranisworld1090]

Om Sai Ram

[@deephak.r8937]

Thank you for this awesome subject... Found it really helpful and timely.OM SAI 🙏

[@ramramanan8997]

Please have more podcasts on this subject as this is a DIFFICULT subject to internalize!

[@sowmiakolanjinathan5347]

👌🤩😍An sensational podacast again to ignite our awarness to surf through our life in daily living......much gratitude to you nikhil anna and gautam ji💐🙏

[@ishitamehta2981]

Om sai ram thank u baba🙏🙏🙏

[@rishabhp.rayadurg5881]

OM Sai Ram 🙏

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

12:00 Nisargadatta maharaj

[@sonaloxford]

Highly grateful to Sai for bringing in these Spiritual tools and techniques through these developed Souls like Nikhil, Gautam, Aai, Hema maa, Vinny Maa and many more for uplifting and developing Souls like us. Thankyou everyone always 🙏

[@sonaloxford]

@@ksadanandshamappa2361 Thankyou so much for your guiding, I did visit and indeed it's giving deeper insights about Sai Leelas 🙏😊

[@vidyakamath7312]

Om Sai Ram🙏wonderful teachings. Very thankful to you both for such beautiful conversation.

[@ridhimakapoor819]

Amazing JaiSaiRam

[@srivalli2694]

Very nicely explained in detail, how ego plays and how cautious i should be. Thanks Gautam ji 🙏🌹

[@rajamnair8337]

Very interesting topic. Looking into ourselves.. Great!! Thank u Nikhilji and Goutamji

[@sanghamitradasgupta7028]

Excellent talk. Thank you.

[@sria2574]

Everything is His will

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

9:57 Yesss

[@sangeetabaruachoudhury2186]

Thank you Nik & Gautam for covering such a important topic. I am looking forward for another session where we can understand more on the subject Ego. The way it sound so easy but it is very deep word and more details on the subject will be very helpful. Om Sai Ram 🙏🙏🙏

[@keerthiswamy7122]

Thank you . Much helpful 🙏🏼 .Looking forward for more podcasts on this topic .

[@sherin1adonis]

I like the way you select your questions.

[@A_philodendron]

Please continue on this topic

[@geetamalhotra1199]

EGO has to go or rather dissolved in the end . Thanks for sharing such beautiful experience 🙏🏽🌸

[@agrotaleetoagrotaleeto7938]

Thank you ❤️🙏😊

[@RichaChauhandreams]

🙏🙏

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7:17 The Baba Path

[@Saibabalight]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@bhaghiappaiya9822]

Ever grateful om sai thank you both

[@priyankamohansharma1451]

I congratulate Mr. Nikhil and Mr. Gautam on their exemplary work done with such honesty and integrity. I wish I had your email, but I am writing my request here only, may be you will see it. My suggestion is that you call people on your shows who solved challenges in their life through spiritual values and teachings, greatest problems of life, real heavy ones and how they assessed which spiritual principle to apply and they went ahead and did it.This will obviously also cover some people who are Sai Devotees and their experience. This kind of a programme will be very inspiring, since you see , the ignorant amongst us very often say, ‘These things are not doable in real life’.The people who speak can keep their identities a secret if they so want.Just a suggestion. I had a strong urge of making a request to you gentlemen.

[@Divine00]

Om Sai Ram 🌸🌹♥️ Thank you Gautamji Nikhilji 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@seskicioglu3062]

🌿💚

[@ramramanan8997]

GREAT WORK THANK YOU

[@monicananjunda3539]

Yes. More podcasts on the Ego please! This is something to listen to everyday as a reminder to myself. Thank you guys! 💜

[@kcm1912]

Sir please continue your podcast on Ego

[@malathikn5244]

Om sai ram 🙏🙏🙏. Thank you Gautamji nd Nikhilji🙏🙏🙏

[@omsairam9367]

Most needed video 👍👍

[@nikitaray9076]

Om sai ram ji 🌹🙏

[@arpitasinha944]

It is indeed very helpful..we would love to have more sessions on this... Thanks for giving us this minute insights..

[@erer782]

Aum Sai ram 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you Nikhil 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you Gautamji 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Today's podcast is directly hitting at the garbage i am living in. It Pinpointed my negative aspects. Truly appreciate all your pointers. Need to write down. With these i explored what are my ego traits. Need to understand thin line between self esteem and ego. Also any amount of ego is necessary for survival? Many points are covered in one podcast. I will have to see this video two- three times and write down. Description box is really helpful to understand the video. Tons of thanks to both of you Sai 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@padmajareddy360]

Om Sairam.. It was an eye opener and wonderful teaching and learning for me today ..All my questions are answered as I was feeling upset seeing a post on discrimination and overreacted for sometime.. But by the end of the day your words with beautiful examples has made me unlearn and relearn things better with conscious and constant efforts.. Thanks for sharing and helping me to be self aware ..

[@agrotaleetoagrotaleeto7938]

Om Sai Ram ji 😀🤘💓🙏😀

[@vaishalivijayakumar3513]

Wanted more discussion on this topic.

[@pallavigajbhiye6110]

OM SAI RAM🙏🌹🌺🙏

[@shwetasingh3414]

Wow 222 likes...Thank you Baba😍

[@saswatidey6142]

Jai sai nath🙏🙏🌹🌹

[@shankarsarkar831]

Thanks for comming again 🙏

[@shankarsarkar831]

Please guide us to overcome our ego

[@meghna4712]

What a session... Eye opening... Thank you so much for these gem words ... Om sai ram 🙏

[@ksoldestaccount7654]

19:02 relationship

[@MrunmayiDandekar150104]

Yes! I love that- Reactivity and Reactions.

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17:43 The ego

[@deepashastri692]

This was a mind blowing podcast. Gautam and Nikhil please continue giving us many many more such enlightening thoughts. Looking forward to hearing more on the ego. Om Sai Ram 🙏🏼🌺🙏🏼🌺🙏🏼🌺

[@bhuvaneswaria4963]

Beautiful podcast infinite gratitude for the seva 🙏 🙏🙏

[@shivanikapoor5974]

Thank you for this profound wisdom. We really need the humility in us going to follow Baba's path 🙏🙏

[@shubhisharma4261]

Thank you gautam ji and nikhil ji🙏🏼 Gautam ji we are blessed to learn from you. Plz do make videos. Its always a blessing .

[@joutukkundu6927]

Really blessed to learn from the video... Om Sai Ram 🙏

[@alpnadeleep]

Baba replied my question through this podcast.The question was bothering me today .Thank u Gautam ji for such a beautiful explination.sai Ram

[@likeitism]

From Something Happened to Me To Something Happened. Period👌👌🙏 What an impact !!!!

[@alpnadeleep]

Yes very adaptable on everyday life

[@bharathadarshanam]

This is so beautiful. The words have so much of energy. Introspective. Om Sai Ram🙏

[@nagagaya3]

Eagerly waiting for the next podcast

[@MrunmayiDandekar150104]

This was an all rounded conversation- practical, sensible and deep. Thank you again! 🙏🏻🕉

[@amitashrivastava9493]

Thank you for this educative podcast. 🙏

[@monikarohilla5330]

Thank u Nikhilji Gautami ,ur talks are always like a light in darkness,I request u to please explore this topic more as it's mainly the ego which has to be surrendered OM SAI RAM

[@vandanatalwar2897]

Excellent, podcast and a wonderful topic, enabling us to look within , reflect and scan our own behaviour and observe where we are coming from. Specially for serious seekers on the spiritual path. Look fwd to more podcasts on the same subject. Thank you Nikhil.

[@bindugrover1533]

Thanks so much Gautam ji and Nikhil. Would love to learn more on the subject please. Pranam to Aai.

[@chavichandel8899]

Thank you, Nikhil ji and Gautam ji for the wonderful podcast...Would be grateful if you could share more wisdom on the same topic...Om sai ram

[@lalithaambigai5561]

"I" is something very difficult to let go when it practically exist in the very nature of languages that we utilize. Hence , how do we effectively practice letting go of it to surrender completely? Hopefully I learn to do this in due time. Om Sai Ram

[@Lovehappinesspeace6]

His Will❤😭😶

[@akshaygaware6789]

*Kindly Note*- For Darshan As per the rules by Saibaba Sansthan Shirdi, people who are above 65 years old & children's below 10 years old are not allowed for Darshan. Also people with co-morbidities are not allowed. Kindly spread this as many devotees are coming to shirdi without knowing the age restrictions.

[@nisharamchandani5016]

Thank God I heard this today! Recently, I met a devotee who would not stop sharing their 'special experiences'. I felt really really bad that I judged this person. Kept thinking I should ask Gauthamji about how should I deal with this and kept punishing myself. This podcast answered my questions. Thanks so much!

[@thelostsoul4523]

Thank you! If I may ask, could you please elaborate more on this topic and how can we overcome or eliminate the mentioned 'triggers'

[@gaurinulkar4435]

Please explain

[@manalikore1263]

OM SAI RAM I wanted to ask you about affirmation that one says that im universe child ,only best will happen to me saying this kind of affirmation is also ego???

[@surya.kasibhatla]

Yes

[@ramramanan8997]

A classic case; At one’s work place you don’t get recognized for the Great work you do someone else steals your Credit How do you cope with this? Will be very helpful to hear Both of you - Your Wisdom Please

[@SaiBabasDevoteeSpeaks]

Sometimes this happens and yes its not nice, however one has to witness the sense of feeling diminished as it is the ego itself which feels diminished. Once one witnesses in this way which is not very easy, it removes the sting of it being taken personally and then one sees things as they are, it could be a political dynamic playing out where someone else would do this to anyone else just for themselves to feel greater and would take credit from anyone and it is not personal. Over time we then slowly reduce our identification with things places situations and truly then perform karma without attachment as in the Gita. It starts with witnessing.

[@ramramanan8997]

Thank you appreciate your response

[@pooh805]

will Gautam ji' share his mother's experience so that we can gain some knowledge on that topic also?