Ego-Maker (Ahamkara)

Ahaṃkāra is the faculty that creates the sense of individual “I”-ness, anchoring identity in physical and mental phenomena. It is the root of personal ego and self-identification that both empowers and limits us.

Central to Sankhya philosophy, Ahaṃkāra explains how the self becomes entangled with transient thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, leading to illusions of separation from the Absolute.

- Addressed in meditative practices and self-inquiry as the mechanism behind attachment and suffering. - Used to highlight the need for dis-identification from transient identities to experience the true Self.