An essential part of that awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you. The ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts. ๐ This is why this book shows main aspects of the ego and how they operate in the individual as well as in the collective.
First reason unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you wont recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying with it again and again. This means it takes you over, an imposter pretending to be you.
Second reason that act of recognition itself is one of the ways in which awakening happens. When you recognize the unconsciousness in you, that which makes recognition possible is the arising consciousness is awakening. You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are the light. ๐
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already with you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. ๐ป But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. ๐