God has the biggest ego of all. He smit people for blasphemy. What you refer as God is not God but is the Holy Ghost, or soul, or the “nothing” viewer of the material world. The ego is simply a collection of thoughts generated by a machine. If God had no thoughts, yet accomplished intelligent feats, that would make him a non-sentient. So anything without an ego is either not-sentient of what it does, and acts in an unconscious manner, or is completely not sentient at all, period.
Ego, the popular term, that people in yoga clinics tell you to avoid, I define that as a small component voice in brain which tells you what to do. So I take it that is where they derive the notion that freedom is acquired from “egofree living”. That differs from my definition of ego, which is the collective of all thought in your brain that you experience.
However, “freedom” like free-will is a false concept. Freewill is absolutely mechanically impossible on all levels, but freedom can be a valid concept if you label and define the proper parameters in relation to the movement of the objects.
The ego is not artificial no matter what religion you believe. Either we evolved it through natural-selection or God gave it to us. I define the ego as the collective of all thought in your brain that you experience, so removing it would be pointless as you would become a lower functioning lifeform, and there are already plenty of those.
Furthermore, upon further inspection of the colloquial use of the word “ego” we can find references that associate with irrational type thought patterns, usually associated with tunnel vision and temporary blindness of the outside world. For instance, “Mike and his big ego” refers to emotionally centric irrational behaviors without regard to future consequences, or “hurt his ego” refers to an attack on his built up personality. “Ego” led behavoir refers to an inability to view yourself from outside yourself, ie. the inability to view the situation from a third person type frame and inability to distance one’s self from one’s emotional situation. So, colloquial slang defines “ego” as a type of thought pattern unable to extrapolate to the frame of the outside world, and mostly centered in one’s own frame. In this sense, “ego” is only a “wisp”, and not really a “thing” in the sense of a well defined object, but loosely defined and thus I implicate it to be only a certain flavor of thoughts some moderns deem to be unsavory.