Annihilation or Individuation of the Self
''The Vรฎra has from time immemorial sought to find an escape from this drama, much more intense in those who remember the moment in which they for the first time feel themselves to be 'I,' without knowing that others can also feel themselves 'I' just the same, being also separated and individualized here. Religions, esoteric practices, yogas of post-Vedic India have claimed to find a solution in the annihilation of the 'I' by means of asceticism and torments of all kinds, to merge again in the impersonal universal Soul, in the One, in Brahma, in differentiation, in that which is also called God.
Generations of ascetics and christian saints have sought the destruction of the 'I.' In India they are the Vedanta of Shankaracharya and Bhakti yogis, using Samadhi, which in Sanskrit means precisely 'united with the Primordial Being,' as already mentioned.
This path and idea should start with the assumption that the 'I' is a fall, personality a 'sin' that must be corrected, redeemed. And up to a point they are right, in the sense that the 'I' and individuality are born as something unique in the entire Universe and, perhaps, in all Universes, something not thought, never dreamed and made possible by the incarnation of a Divinity, a Being of pure spirit in the world of flesh corrupted by the Demiurge. The Hero-Son is already a mixed being split between his God and a Demon. And the 'ego' is the product of this mixture.''
โMiguel Serrano: MANU, For The Man To Come
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