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Right now we are talking about the commonly understood ‘egotism’ (‘aham-bhAvaM’, in Tamil).
Usually the technical shAstra literature does not make a distinction between ahamkAraM and this aham-bhAvaM’.
I am making the distinction for clarity.
Egoism is the name given to the ego’s thought of ‘I’ and egotism is the name given to the conceit and vanity of a swelled head.
(Continued...)
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