The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
