
This statement is very profound. All your efforts at the final steps are in vain. Because effort requires ego
So how can you reach something beyond ego?
What can you do? Nothing. Give up ego. But to give up ego you will make effort which is ego generated effort ! Ego can’t destroy ego
Thus in other words. You need a Guru. He alone , he who is beyond ego can take you beyond ego
But there are a few steps
Finding someone beyond ego. A true Guru
Then you recognizing him and accepting him
Both things are rare. We are incapable of recognizing a true Guru. So we cannot accept. Plus a true Guru is less than one in a billion