To drop Your Ego first you need to have a concrete Ego

Many things have been written on ego ,every religious and spiritual thinker believes that ego is behind all forms of human misery either directly or indirectly and as a result it is always instructed that human beings must try to get rid of this ego , even i do feel that if a man really wants to live a happy and peaceful life he should sooner or later he needs to get rid of his ego ,because ego is nothing but a convoluted insatiable entity that can never be satisfied,the more you will try to appease it the more it's expectations increases ,But the point is though it seems very simple to say that drop your ego and live a happy life its easier said than done ,it is one of the most difficult task to be accomplished (especially for a person who has got an egoistic persona).The very basic reason is ego as a whole is generally not a very concrete idea but rather a confused state of mind .In fact an egoist person is himself very confused ,he him self find it tough to comprehend his ego in exact terms,he knows that ego is something that gives him pain but at the same time since his own persona is some how intermixed with ego in such a way that he really finds it tough to drop it as an separate entity.

But there is a technique available to drop one's ego ,and that is not to fight with ego but to nourish it.It sounds paradoxical but that's the way the world is ,by nourishing i mean rather than fighting with one's ego one should first try to develop it ,so that over a period of time it should no more remain as a confusion but as a concrete idea , an idea that is clearly palpable.Once the idea becomes concrete it becomes easy to drop it. Remember one thing only some thing concrete can be dropped ,an abstraction can never be dropped so first make your ego exist ,first make it happen and then drop .Now there is no more confusion,now ego is no more an abstraction but a clear cut reality whose futility and meaningless can be viewed by the human mind,now as individual man will no more be confused and now his action of dropping is not based on any external instruction but on his own understanding and awareness.

In short i will say that rather fighting a futile battle with one's ego first man should try to follow his ego,as an individual we all are unique and all have some sort of desires,we all want to prove ourselves so rather than first dropping our ego we should first try to pacify it, we should first try to celebrate our individuality,and after this celebration when we are really contended with our-self,once when we start viewing ourselves as an elevated individual then there in that moment of glory we find that though we were craving for this but this nothing but a nuisance and there in that moment of awareness we drop down our ego completely.

REFERENCE:- a) NEW MAN FOR NEW MILLENNIUM: OSHO
b) FREEDOM:- OSHO