Questions are a way, one of many, for the ego to keep from dissolving back into the nothingness that birthed it.
To the fully enlightened consciousness there are no questions, because there is no separation between an I and a not-I. Being all the answers, questions never even arise. That is omniscience, and it doesn’t exist. Not even the creator is omniscient, which is the very reason why creation is infinite and eternal, and why it keeps expanding. In other words – not even the creator is fully enlightened, because it cannot know itself.
The purpose of the human experience, and even the soul's experience, is to have questions and find answers to them, to encounter problems and find solutions, to create and to destroy. That is the path of discovery and self-development. It is exciting and enjoyable, and it would not be possible without some form of limitation. It would not be possible without an ego, or a sense of self.
Therefore, the point of spiritual development is not to dissolve, or kill, the ego, but to allow it to be, and to serve its purpose, while not identifying with its self-imposed limitations. Non-identification removes resistance from the experience, but it doesn’t remove the joy of discovery.
Every part of creation, but not the creator itself as the unmanifest, has a specific focal point from which creation is experienced. That focal point necessitates some form of ego, because without being this and not that, it would not be possible to experience anything at all.
Why is that?
Quite simply because the point of reference would be missing. As the creator, I cannot experience myself because there is nothing that I am not. Therefore, I must imagine to split into different parts in order to experience the other parts of myself from the vantage point of one part.
That, incidentally, is the reason why the creator is real but the entirety of creation is an illusion. The separation, and therefore all the different egos, are imagined in order to have an experience – not of what is, but of what is not.
By definition, it is not possible to experience what one is, only what one is not. “Know thyself”, therefore, is an oxymoron. I can only ever know what I am not, imagining that I am that.
Hence, the entire purpose of creation is for the ego to exist, because without it, there would be no experience. The paradox, from a human perspective, is that only an ego would try to kill the ego. From the vantage point of the creator, killing the ego would be self-defeating, because the creator needs the ego in order to have any sort of experience at all. Otherwise, how could egos even exist, if the creator is omnipotent and didn’t want them to exist?
So what’s the bottom line here? It is that attempting to kill or dissolve the ego will never, ever work. All it does, is to create an identification with another ego, what is commonly called a “spiritual ego”. That is the “better” ego, the “enlightened” ego, the ego that sees all the flaws in that other ego and therefore wants to destroy it. By trying to kill our ego we merely jump from the frying pan into the fire.
What we can do, and what really leads to some form of enlightenment, is to allow whatever egos there are, in ourselves and others, to be what they are and not identify with any one of them. Total allowance removes all resistance. That is what feels enlightening, because it is resistance to what is that feels heavy and dark, that prevents our vibration from rising, and our consciousness from expanding.
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