After Enlightenment...

Yes, the ego as individuality, a separate identity remains.

But it becomes reborn, purified, humbled before the higher power,

no longer narrow in interests, no longer tyrannizing over the man, no longer selfish in the sense of the word.

For as an enlightened being it may remain, harmless to all beings, benevolent to all creatures,

respondent to a timeless consciousness enfolding its ordinary personality.

The smaller circle can continue to exist within the larger one until the liberation of death.

It is no longer the source of ignorance and evil; that ego is dissolved and obliterated.

The new being is simply separate in body, thought, feeling from others but not from the universal, mass being behind them.

There all are one.


— Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 217
... Paul Brunton