Kill The Ego – The Final Blow That Sets You Free
- Sukhdev Virdee

- Jun 27
- 4 min read
You can study every scripture.
Sit with the wisest masters.
Even touch silence…
But if the ego remains untouched, it will quietly claim awakening as its victory.
In Kill The Ego, the fourth book of the I Am Consciousness series, we enter the most volatile, heartbreaking, and transformative stage of the seeker’s path.
This is the dark night before the dawn.
The place where the seeker is brought face-to-face with the one thing they cannot surrender: the one who seeks.

David Is Left Alone
The other seekers—Otto, Amelia, Oliver, and even Uchit—have left the ashram to return to their homes.
Each of them touched something profound in the Himalayas.
But David stays behind. Why?
Because he still hasn’t found what he came for.
He had glimpses. Teachings. Devotion. Meditation.
But the burning question remains:
“When will I know God?”
So he stays at the ashram, helping out—sweeping floors, cooking, chanting, listening.
He’s no longer the man who arrived from New York. His identity as a prestigious surgeon is long gone.
But there is one final knot left.
And it will not be untied gently.
Enter the Doubter
One day, a new group arrives from Canada. Among them is Mark—young, sharp, skeptical.
When Mark hears David’s story, he doesn’t respond with awe.
He responds with mockery.
“You left your career, your life, your prestige—for this?”
“You’re chasing some mystical nonsense. You could be one of the top surgeons in New York by now.”
These words are sharp. But what’s worse is—they trigger something.
A doubt David hadn’t felt in months resurfaces:
What if I’ve wasted my life? What if I’ve gone mad? What if Swamiji isn’t who I thought he was?
The Ego’s Final Strategy
The ego doesn’t die through knowledge.
It dies when its foundation—self-trust—is shattered.
And this is exactly what Swamiji sees happening in David.
Rather than soothe him, Swamiji calls him in for a private meeting in an old Satsang hall that hasn't been opened in decades.
What happens in that closed-door conversation is brutal:
“You are nothing.”
“You will never realize the Self.”
“All of this is nonsense. Go back to your life.”
David is crushed.
Why would Swamiji—whom he has loved, trusted, and surrendered to—say this?
Why would his master break him like this?
Because this was the final lesson.
The one who seeks—even the humble, sincere, spiritual seeker—must be destroyed.
And David’s deepest attachment wasn’t to New York, or medicine, or even God.
It was to the inner voice that told him:
"You are close. Keep going. You will realize."
Now even that has been taken away.
Walking Away
David, heartbroken and hollow, leaves the ashram.
He makes his way to Delhi.
He checks into a hotel.
Books a flight back to New York.
He’s done.
He gave it everything.
And he was wrong.
At the airport, just as he is about to board the plane, something happens.
The Collapse Into Nothingness
In a moment beyond understanding, David’s identity collapses.
He falls—not physically, but inwardly—into the heart of nothingness.
There is no more “David.”
No more seeker.
No more struggle.
Only pure Awareness, stretching without boundary, without center, without “me.”
He is one with the Universe.
But there is no “he” to speak of it.
This is not a peak experience.
It is the disappearance of the experiencer.
The Return to the Ashram
Stunned, silent, and changed beyond words, David walks out of the airport.
Yogiji and Uchit, who had accompanied him to say goodbye, are still outside.
He meets their eyes.
They don’t need to speak.
They know.
They return to the ashram.
Swamiji smiles when he sees him.
Not because David came back…
But because David never left.
The one who left was never real.
The one who returned had never been born.

Why This Book Is So Important
Kill The Ego is not for the faint-hearted.
It’s for the sincere.
It is the story of every seeker who has reached the edge of surrender—and found that the final sacrifice is the self itself.
This book shows us:
The mind’s clever last attempts to survive.
How trust in a Guru can be weaponized to free you.
That awakening happens when there’s no one left to awaken.
If Prepare To Awaken was the clearing of the field,
Kill The Ego is the burning of the last seed.
For You, the Seeker Reading This
Have you felt like you’re doing everything “right” spiritually, but something still remains?
Have you experienced the breakdown of faith, the loss of clarity, the temptation to return to your old life?
This book will speak to your soul.
It will show you that your failure is sacred.
That when you feel furthest from truth, you may be closest to it.
And that sometimes, the Guru must kill you—for the truth to be born.

Read Kill The Ego Now
Let this book cut through you like a sword of light.
Let it hurt. Let it heal.
Let it end what never was.
Buy Book 4 – Kill The Ego ➤




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