Ego and Will in Raja Yoga

The character-building conclusion assigns mastery over mental states and habits to the Ego, while describing the Will as its direct instrument. Its language of strength concerns expressing this identity and governing one's lower nature, with additional claims about outside nature.

The following affirmation condenses that relation into a declaration of control over habits and character. It connects willing strength with summoning the forces of one's nature, giving the preceding model a first-person verbal form.

Ego here is a term within Ramacharaka's spiritual account rather than a diagnosis or an interchangeable label for later psychological theories. The relation of directing identity to instrument is distinct from the individual habits that the instrument is supposed to govern.