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Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: False ego. You can say false ego.
Bhagavad-gītā 18.67–69
Prabhupāda: First thing is that ego, if you are qualified with false ego, that ego development is dangerous This is false ego. And if you increase this false ego, then where is the benefit? You are misled.
Lecture at Bhārata Chamber of Commerce
Now you are in false ego. You have to come to the real ego. Now you are thinking, "I am Indian. These are all false ego. When you come to your real ego, that "I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa," that Ego, you cannot give up. But this is your false ego. You have to give up your false ego, come to the real ego. That's required. Purify your ego.
Room Conversation
Rūpānuga: Is there false ego in different modes? Like false ego in the mode of ignorance, false in the mode of passion or goodness?
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: This is false ego = "I am this matter. I am this body." This is false ego.
Room Conversation
Rāmeśvara: Their false egos. They have such big false egos that they are only thinking about their selves.
ŚB 11.24.8
— the gross elements; tat-mātrikāt — from the subtle sensations (which themselves are derived from false ego in the mode of goodness); jajñe — became generated; tāmasāt — from false ego in the mode of ignorance ; indriyāṇi — the senses; ca — and; taijasāt — from false ego in the mode of passion; devatāḥ — the demigods ; āsan — arose; ekādaśa — eleven; ca — and; vaikṛtāt — from false ego in the mode of goodness.
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Ego is there, but this is false ego.
Room Conversation
That is contaminated ego, false ego.
ŚB 11.24.8
From false ego in the mode of ignorance came the subtle physical perceptions, from which the gross elements From false ego in the mode of passion came the senses, and from false ego in the mode of goodness arose
Bg. 13.8-12
False ego means accepting this body as oneself. Ego is there. False ego is condemned, but not real ego. This sense of “I am” is ego, but when the sense of “I am” is applied to this false body it is false ego ego means identity. We ought, of course, to give up the false identification with the body.
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: Ego, ego is there, but false and right.