It is God's grace that He does not let anyone's ego remain. As the ego comes, it gets confronted and knocked off. God out of His immense grace and mercy, is alarming us that do not consider anything to be your own. God breaks down the egoism. He does not let it remain and that is His greatness, His very amazing, supernatural and transcedental grace.
He in whom the egoism remains, they become like demons. Hiranyakashipu, Hiranyaaksh, Ravana, Dantavkrt, Shishupal etc. all of them had egoism. Because of their egoism, they did not care about anyone. Not even God ! To get rid of their egoism, God manifest one earth, and through His grace, destroys them. In reality, God does not kill men, rather He kills their egoism. Just like if someone has a boil, then first the Vaidya (ancient doctor) lets it ripen, then he places a slit on it to let it drain off. Similarly, God first lets the egoism ripen, and then he destroys it. On this subject He does not follow anyone's ruling.
God's nature is very unusual and peculiar. If someone else does a favor, they remind us frequently of it by saying, I helped you move up ! But God even after giving something to us, He says - "Mein toh hu, Bhagatan ko daas, Bhagat mere mukutmani" ! God does not say that I have lifted you up, but instead He Himself becomes the devotee's servant. Not only that, God does not even let the devotee realize that He has given the devotee everything.
Man has this body, sense organs, mind, intellect, etc. All that he has, it has all been given by only God. God gives everything so secretively that man believes these things to be his very own. Man believes that this is my mind, this is my intellect, these are my abilities, these are my capabilities, this is my understanding. It is the unusual and gracious nature of the giver, that what we have received appears to us as if it is ours. If these eyes are our own, then why do you put on glasses ? If the eyes have become weak, then we should be able to fix them by ourselves. If this body is ours, then don't let it fall sick. Don't let it die.
It is the amazing and wonderous thing about the giver, that He does not ever let us feel that it has been given by Him. Therefore man believes that He is very knowledgable and understanding, he is a great speaker, He is an intellectual, he is a writer etc. He exerts his egoism and says, I do so much name recitation, I do so much devotion and worship, I meditate for so long, I read so many chapters of the scriptures etc. etc. Man must think, that by what strength is he able to do this ? Where did this energy, this strength come from? Arjun was right there, His bow and the arrow too were right there next ot him, then too the band of robbers, took the Gopis away and Arjun was unable to do anything - "Kaabaan looti Gopika, weh Arjun, weh baan," Arjun won the Mahabharat war, that strength was not his own, but it was the strength of the One who had become Arjun's charioteer, Bhagawan Shri Krishna. In the Gita, God has also said - "maiyyevaite nihataah poorvameva nimittamaatram bhav savyasaachin. " (Gita 11:33). "Yeh sabhi mere dwaara pahelese hi maare huye hai. Hey savyasaachin ! Tum nimittmaatra ban jaao." "They have all been already killed ahead of time. You simply become the instrument."
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