Posted on: 11 May 2021
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, When an artist performs an art like singing, dancing, acting, etc., the performer looses oneself for certain moments of time. The singer becomes the song and the dancer becomes the dance. Osho also has written in his book that a human being reaches to a stage of egolessness during sexual intercourse and he says that this is a glimpse of experience of the Divine. Is it correct? Kindly enlighten us about this state of egolessness and losing oneself. Does it have any spiritual significance? -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Thrylokya]
Swāmi replied:- Becoming egoless in sex is not the right concept. Even in sleep one has no ego. Becoming egoless with reference to God is the right concept. In the case of controlling the bad person, ego must be expressed to threaten him. ‘I’ is the basic ego and ego is the extrapolation of the basic ego. Ego is the pride of self and projection of self without passing on the credit of merit to God. Forgetting I in singing and dancing is not egoless. After the song or dance, the basic ego is returning. Up to that there is nothing wrong. But, the pride of song or dance shall not come, which is the actual ego. The singer or dancer must pass on the credit of singing or dancing to God without self pride. Ego means the self pride and not the basic ego or I. People are confused in this concept of ego.