Swamiji on “Un-becoming”

The question arises: If the whole life has been spent incrementally hardening the concept of oneself as a limited name and form with every new thought and interaction, how does one “un-become”? How does one undo the hardening of these concepts? The path to enlightenment is simply this “un-becoming” of the egoic self. Where each thought and interaction was personalized before, it must now become depersonalized. Enlightenment is becoming and living as "no thing."

— Swami Sai Premananda