Let us first understand what ego is. Who will know about it? God, of course, who has created it. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states that a soul is part of Him (15.7). Surely, a part must serve the whole, who is God. There are several verses in the Gita where Lord Krishna has asked us, souls, to work for Him, as in verse 11.55. As God is complete in all respects, He does not need anything from us (3.22). What the Lord means is to serve His other parts - souls. Lord Krishna has praised such souls, as in verse 3.20, when He stated, “Such souls achieved perfection by working selflessly only.” These parts must have an identity, a feeling of being somebody. In a Sanskrit dictionary, it is defined........

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