Mine
Fourth layer of ego – Mine.
The Word ‘mine’ is the key word there. One has to extend oneself by accumulating money, by accumulating power, by becoming bigger and bigger and bigger: the patriot who says, “This is my country and this is the greatest country in the world.” You can ask the Indian patriot: he goes on shouting from every nook and corner that this is punya bhumi–this is the land of virtue, the purest land in the world.
But the patriot is arrogant, aggressive, and egoistic. He goes on declaring, “My country is special, my religion is special, my church is special, my book is special, my guru is special, my guru is special”- and everything in nothing. This is false ego claiming.
A few people get hooked with this ‘mine’–the dogmatist, the patriot, the Hindu, the Christian, the Mohammedan.
