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ahamkara

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ahamkara (ä·hämˑ·kä·r),
n in Sanskrit, egotism or pride.


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Ahamkara is our ''I'' maker and identity former that personalizes every experience.
In the fifth stage, the artist meditates on the vast emptiness (sunyata) to destroy his ahamkara, the consciousness of self, which would otherwise intervene between him and the object of his meditation.
This reflection is what gives us the "I-sense" of individuality (the ahamkara, or "I-sense"), as well as the ability to cognize the world around and within us.
 
 
 
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