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And the intelligence is controlled by the ego. So if the ego is false, then everything is false. If I falsely identify with this body because of false ego, then anything based on this false idea is also false. The whole of Vedic education aims at getting off this false platform and coming to the real platform All his troubles are due to the false ego, and as soon as the individual realizes his true ego, the blazing
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Śrīla Prabhupāda: It is certainly true that everyone has some false egoism, or ahaṅkāra. That is false ego, or identifying oneself with one’s place of birth. If a child is taught this superior egoism from the beginning, then automatically his false egoism is
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Śyāmasundara: Freud divided the personality into three departments: the ego, the superego, and the id The ego is one’s image of his own body, and is the instinct for self-preservation.
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Śyāmasundara: Then these interactions of the id, the ego, and the superego are all bodily interactions
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Śyāmasundara: Freud says that the ego tries to preserve the individual by organizing and controlling In other words, if the id sees something, like food, it automatically demands to eat it, and the ego
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Śyāmasundara: Freud believed that the ego tries to restrain these primitive drives, and that all anxieties
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says that anxiety develops when the superego represses the primitive desires of the id to protect the ego
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anxiety, which he said was produced when the impulses of the id threaten to overpower the rational ego
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at death, the present gross body is destroyed, but the subtle body, made of mind, intelligence, and ego
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And when we become attracted by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa, we will lose our attraction for the false beauty
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Śrīla Prabhupāda: But the basic principle is false, since Freud has no conception of the soul existing
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And when we become attracted by the beauty of Kṛṣṇa, we will lose our attraction for the false beauty