What exactly is the false ego – where is it located?

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So what exactly is the false ego? Yesterday I explained the mind. So where did the false ego come into the picture? We talked about the mind and intelligence.
Yeah. See, yesterday I gave the example of a person watching a TV. And then the mind is like a TV screen through which our consciousness gets caught somewhere else.
So now if the person is here, the TV screen is here. And the person can look at the room around, but the person is focusing on the TV. And then if, say, assume that there are blinders on both sides, by which, say, the person is here, the TV is here and there is a blinder on both sides, by which the person actually cannot look anywhere else.
They have the capacity to look elsewhere, but at that point the blinders prevent them from looking anywhere else. So those blinders which rivet the soul’s consciousness on the mind’s movie screen, that blinder is the false ego. The false ego is what causes the soul’s consciousness to be caught in the mind’s movie screen.
Whatever the mind is depicting, that’s what the soul can see. The soul cannot see anything else. So when I have a false ego that says, I am a man, I am an Indian, I am this, I am that, then I cannot perceive things from anyone else’s perspective.
So the stronger our false ego, the stronger our vision gets restricted to whatever our mind is showing us. There are some people who are very opinionated. They just cannot tolerate any opinion apart from their own opinion.
That means they are very caught in their own mind. So the false ego is what? The blinder that causes the soul to focus, soul to get completely caught in the mind’s picture of reality. Does that answer your question?