Ego

One cannot attain knowledge unless one is free from egotism.

The root cause of a person's suffering is their pride. Even if someone makes a sacrifice, they can still get caught up in their own pride. What is the point of such a sacrifice? It is pride, or ego, that should be sacrificed. That is where true happiness and bliss are found.

With your consciousness fixed in Me, you shall, by My grace, cross all dangers and difficulties; but if from ego you will not hear Me, you shall perish.

Having released ego, force, arrogance, desire, wrath, and possessiveness — free of 'mine,' and tranquil — that person becomes fit for union with Brahman.

All actions are performed in every way by the qualities of nature. The one whose self is deluded by the ego thinks: 'I am the doer.'

That person who walks through life having abandoned all desires, free of longing, without possessiveness, and without ego — attains peace.

If, clinging to ego, you think 'I will not fight' — this resolve of yours is false; your own nature will compel you.

Action that is performed by one driven by desire, or again with arrogant pride, with great strain and exertion — that is declared to be rajasic.

One who is free from the sense of 'I am the doer,' whose intellect is not tainted — even if that person slays all these worlds, there is no slaying, and no bond is formed.

The fourfold order of society was created by Me according to the division of qualities and actions. Though I am its creator, know Me to be the imperishable non-doer.

Brahman won a victory on behalf of the gods. In that victory of Brahman, the gods became proud.

Yet, things being so, one who sees the pure Self alone as the doer — that dim-witted person, with an uncultured intellect, does not truly see.

What power is in you? I can carry away everything that exists on this earth.

He ran toward it. It said, who are you? He replied, I am indeed Vayu; I am Matarrisva.

What power is in you? I can burn everything that exists on this earth.

He ran toward it. It said to him, who are you? He replied, I am indeed Agni; I am Jataveda.

They thought, this victory belongs to us alone, this glory is ours alone. Brahman perceived their pride, appeared before them, and they could not understand what this wondrous being was.

One who regards all creatures as himself, is restrained, pure, and free from egoism, is considered to be emancipated from everything.

Then win over your ego and mind.

Work becomes elevated when it's done with the right mindset, free from attachment and egoism.