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Sensual Ego

Sensual Ego is a term used by Rumi to refer to the Bodily Ego.

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Rumi pathologizes the sensual ego.

The sensual ego is blind and deaf to God. (M IV 235)

The whole Koran describes the wickedness of egos: Study the Holy Book! Where is your insight? (M VI 4862) [1]
Concern yourself not with the thieflike ego and its business. Whatever is not God's work is nothing, nothing! (M II 1063) [2]
The bird that escapes from the trap of its ego has no fear, wherever it may fly. (D 7327).[3]

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Footnotes

  1. Chittick, William C., and Rumi. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Rumi SUNY Series in Islam. New York: SUNY Press, 1983. p. 33
  2. Chittick, William C., and Rumi. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Rumi SUNY Series in Islam. New York: SUNY Press, 1983. p. 33
  3. Chittick, William C., and Rumi. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Rumi SUNY Series in Islam. New York: SUNY Press, 1983. p. 33