… electricity, which is a generic type of energy and therefore ‘impersonal’. When it runs through a toaster or a fan, the device would then mistakenly identify itself as being the primary source and not realize it is only an outlet unit. Without the ‘life’ energy of electricity, each receiving unit would be inert.
… To continue the analogy, the primordial source of life energy is independent of localization as units. The units assume themselves to be the primary rather than merely expressions of the universality. The energy of life is a radiance from the field of consciousness… The capacity for Enlightenment is merely a consequence of consciousness returning to its source…
The ego/self identifies with its various functions and qualities and labels them by ownership as ‘me’ and says that is ‘who I am’.