In Advaita Vedanta, we keep on saying that ignorance of our real self is the obstacle and the knowledge comes of the real self. Sramakrishna says, the sense of ego is ignorance. And how you overcome this, if we can just step back from it, there are two ways of overcoming. One is the negative way which is used in Buddhism. You dissolve the eye. There's nothing there. The other way is to expand the eye to infinity - purnahanta or identify it with Brahman existence consciousness,. Practically the same thing. So this is what is done. This is how the avatar liberates us. As we are seeing now, millions