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Kaal firay sir uprai,
hathon dhari kaman.
Kahain Kabir gahu nam ko,
chhor sakal abhimaan.

The death is encircling over the head, with bow and arrow in the hand
Kabir says grab the name of God, keeping off all the pride.

Kabir says – The death of ego happens only through surrender. People ask, ‘How do we not be egoistic?’ But you cannot do anything to be non-egoistic. Whatsoever will you do will make you egoistic again. You can try to discipline the ego, but you cannot be non-egoistic because whatsoever you do enhances the ego. You may try to be humble, but if it is your humbleness — practised, disciplined by you — then deep down in your humbleness the ego will remained crowned, and it will go on saying, ‘Look. How humble I am!’

To drop your ego fully, you need to stop dropping it
Essentially, Osho explains that the ultimate method to drop the ego completely is non-doing. Even if you’re on the spiritual path, if you work on yourself and you manage to dissolve a large part of your identifications, there is a good chance that through all these actions you’re still feeding your ego.

You cannot actively get rid of your ego because whatever you do will establish a sense of identity, however noble or spiritual that identity is. The only way to become established in yourself is through the practise of yoga, through enhancing your awareness and meditation.

An egoless state is a state where you are emotionally indifferent, where praise doesn’t excite joy and criticism doesn’t hurt you. The initial stage of dissolving your ego is to turn in and destroy your identifications with any external factors and characteristics. But in order to get rid of your ego completely, you will need to go a step further — you need to surrender.