Nothing -- Day 6: The Dead Corpse of Ego

"Kill your ego before someone else kills it. Let them be deprived of this pleasure by showing them the dead corpse of your ego."

~ Sudhir Singh

Day 6: The Dead Corpse of Ego

(Nothing came back to Bali.)

He asked, "You left everything, still you are happy. How?"

(Bali didn't look away.)

He said, "I had already left everything from inside, for I have something which cannot be taken."

(Then Nachiketa stepped forward.)

He asked him, "Do you have the courage to be bare like truth?"

"Yes. Just like you." Bali. 

(Smiled and replied.)

(The writer was watching all this.) 

So, he too came to meet them.

He was asked by Bali, "Don't you want to prove yourself?"

(Writer looked hollow inside as if nothing is left.)

"He has nothing to prove", Nachiketa told.

"He confronted his deepest fear buried inside his unconscious. People call it pessimism, but he is practicing the Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius."

"He has his book, Meditations."

"Not a physical copy, but a copy from the dream world which was there deep inside, before his physical existence."

It inscribed, "Kill your ego before someone else kills it. Let them be deprived of this pleasure by showing them the dead corpse of your ego."