Kill the Enemy of Within

God created the world and all that in it. He created human beings to have dominion over all those he created. In fact, human being has control over everything, like prediction of weather, travel to other planets, discovering the secrets about the universe, the computer technology, and the cyber communication are all examples of human beings control over the universe. There is nothing that cannot be controlled by human being. But, the saddest part of the story is that, the human being has no control over his/her own self.

            It is a well-known fact that, every thing in the world has an inside and an outside. When he/she goes to buy something for example, sandals, he/she is worried about the external (colour, design) and the internal (does it suit my feet, do I look okay when I wear it?). So too, human beings are composed of matter and spirit, body and soul, inside and outside. The attitude of inside comes through outside (actions, words, deeds). I am known to the people through my outside.

            The inside, according to me has two dimensions namely good inside and bad inside. The good inside is what I call conscious. It is friend of the self. The conscious is very important in the growth of human person. It is that which always pulls the human being to do good and avoid bad. It makes the human being good and to be happy in all the circumstances.  The bad inside is what I call ego. It is the cause for the enjoyment of the pleasure. It always pulls the individual towards bad. It is the enemy of the self. It sends wrong messages to the mind and since the mind cannot differentiate right and wrong, and because of the power of pull, the body obeys and yields fast to the wrong messages of the ego. This causes human being to be unhappy. So, the greatest task of human is to conquer and kill the ego.