Chinmayananda

 Forgetting his own Real Nature, which

is all-pervading Consciousness, a person comes to misunderstand himself to be the matter envelopments which are nothing but thought-created encrustations around the Divine in him. Perceiving through the prism of the body, mind and intellect, he sees Truth splashed and splintered into endless plurality and the objects give a delusory enchantment to the senses and the mind. To satisfy these urges of his body and mind, the individual runs after the objects. Such a deluded person, having misunderstood his Real Nature, becomes the 'samsaric' ego-centre, a victim of his own ignorance. This fall of the Self to be the selfish ego is spiritual suicide