Ahankara Quotes

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

As per the Indian philosophy of the Upanishads, the source of evil is one’s ego-sense –Ahankara—which differentiates oneself from the other selves. A person, who visualizes himself independent of others, tries to guard or please himself at the cost of others. Evil is thus the tendency of a person to live a life that is not ‘in harmony’ with the rest of the world, but ‘in opposition’ to it or at best ‘in indifference’ to it. The good is to discover the unity in the diversity of ‘all selves’ and beings. Once unity in diversity is realized, every being becomes our own self and good deeds follow automatically

INNER IMAGE (MAMAKARA - HOW YOU PERCEIVE YOURSELF) IS YAMUNA. OUTER IMAGE (AHANKARA - HOW YOU PROJECT YOURSELF TO OTHERS) IS GANGA. WHEN BOTH MERGE, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FULFIL OTHER’S IDEAS ON YOU (ANYAKARA) THAT IS SARASWATHI. THAT IS WHY THE RIVER’S FORM, AFTER SANGAM, IS IN YAMUNA’S COLOUR BUT THE NAME GIVEN IS GANGA. BECAUSE WHAT YOU SHOW TO THE OUTER WORLD, ITS NAME WILL BE THERE BUT WHAT YOU FEEL AS THE INNER WORLD WILL BECOME STRENGTH FOR WHAT YOU SHOW TO THE OUTER WORLD.