What is the ego test?

M.F. asks us:

“You said in the previous article that

….”Examples (negative, unfortunately) are here the most powerful demons who come from the ranks of angels but who have fallen to the test of the ego.”

Question: what is the ego test?

The negative extreme can be egocentric (with all the derivatives of superlatives) but going to the positive side we find altruism … and beyond? … further can be explained in words? Is there a scale by which the separation was made? … or we, as humans, are positioned where we belong, depending on the spiritual maturity we have reached?”

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Answer Abheda Yoga Academy:

The “opposite” of the ego is not altruism…
But if they’re not ego-centered, people are selfless.
The ego is a structure that is not a true center of being,
but tends to substitute itself for the true center which is the Self… and that offers us Authentic, without needing any confirmation.

The ego has a tendency to:

• to attribute their actions and fruits
• to seek to feel separated from the real essence of being
• to need permanent confirmations of his ” value “,

precisely because it is not, in fact, a real center.

Thus, the ego manifests a process of “swelling”…
And, if we have made a compromise with it once, the “crack” tends to get bigger.
The second time we tend to make an even bigger compromise… And so, this structure can become huge, with huge needs… but finite and lifeless.

Ego-centered beings feel the constant need to affirm it, to affirm its “value”
(precisely because of a subtle unaware sensation that it is an uncertain or unreal value).
On the other hand, beings who have an awakened soul or have access to the revelation of the Self do not feel this need, because they are sure.

Another characteristic is that, not being centered in a real center, the psychism of the being centered in the ego is characterized by mechanicism, as described in the psychological typologies or the anagram. This is because the ego is not alive, but is a structure inferior to the soul through which the soul accepts to “look” at the world in a degrading and limited way.

The “ego test” is the temptation to center oneself in a finite lower structure that has these characteristics and to let go of contact with the individual Supreme Self or, at least, with the inner structure of the “living soul.”

This test should have been, in the case of the “first angel created”, simple to pass, because…

He was not ignorant and he certainly knew these things very well.
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The positive “extreme” is sat-cit-ananda

– the state of infinite divine happiness which includes in it the state of supreme existence and the state of perfect knowledge.
That is, we no longer feel the need for new sensations, people or places because we find them all in us in the perfect way.

The human state does not exclude at all from having a demonic or, more clearly, egoic relationship in the strongest way or
from having the highest possible spiritual state.

The human condition refers to possessing a human physical body in a physical world.
But it has nothing to do with the spiritual level, which can be no matter how high or how … despicable.
Well, and this is characteristic of the human condition… namely the fact that, in the same world, side by side…
It is possible that there is also a superegoic being and a being with a very high spiritual level due to integration into the physical world.

Which in the subtle worlds is not possible, due to the fact that everyone instantly positions themselves in the world corresponding to their vibrational level.

This also makes it possible to have a special advantage of the human state:
it is possible, thanks to the integration into the physical body, to evolve rapidly and leave the lower state, going to a higher state.
In the subtle worlds it is difficult – but not impossible – to leave your own vibrational level and the world in which it confines you.
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In reality, all beings are naturally perfect and pure, but some of them choose to “imagine” that they are imperfect.
These are also “helped” by a series of possibilities of limiting and reducing the awareness of one’s own natural state created by the Supreme being himself within this cosmic scene that is the so-called outer World.

Why God does this is a mystery of His own (that is, it is a choice and we do not know and have no way of finding out why He “deals” with it) but this is unimportant.

What is important is the structure of this manifestation of the world and the way in which it can be transcended, in order to know the natural state.