Osho – Ego is the only undivine thing. Ego is the only evil in the world. And it is not really an entity; it is just our fantasy, it is just imagination. It does not exist, it is only a nightmare; but we go on nourishing it and watering it and then it goes on growing more and more thorns. No flower ever comes through it. Ego has never brought a single flower into the world. It only brings thorns. The more you nourish it, the bigger the thorns. They hurt you, they hurt others. Their whole function is to hurt. It is not only that they hurt others. Before they can hurt others they hurt you because they grow within you.
First they penetrate your being, they create wounds in you, and then you start creating wounds in others out of revenge. The miserable person creates misery all around. He wants everybody to be miserable. That’s the only thing that gives him a little bit of happiness. If he can see everybody miserable, more miserable than he is then certainly, according to the law of relativity, according to Albert Einstein, he feels good and happy and blissful.
The ego never wants anybody to be blissful because that hurts very much. The miserable person creates misery, the blissful person create; bliss. we create only ourselves, because we can share only ourselves. for a sannyasin, the only thing to be dropped, the only thing to be renounced, is the eJo. And it is nothing; just a soap bubble, a little hot air. A pinprick is enough, and it is finished. One just has to decide to get rid of it.
And if you can see what it has done to you and to others, you are bound to decide to get rid of it, because it has never given anybody any bliss, it is pure poison. And when there is no ego inside you a tremendous emptiness, a great emptiness comes in, spaciousness, nothingness. There is nobody inside, just a pure awareness, which is not somebody, which has no I as a centre to it. It is meeting and merging with the whole. That’s the ultimate goal of sannyas; to merge with the whole, to become one with the whole.
Source: Osho Book “The Old Pond Plop”