Although it is permissible to identify "haumai" with "ahankar", the fact that "haumai" is not included in the evil pentad and yet comes in for the strongest censure in the Scripture would lead to the conclusion that it is regarded as a major evil in addition to those forming the pentad. It may be added that "haumai" or egoity, self-centredness, the personality system, the belief in one's individual existence, is the basis of all the other evils. From this standpoint, "ahankar" may be reckoned as an offshoot of "haumai". The assertion or affirmation of 'I' runs counter to the affirmation of 'Thou'; the consciousness of 'self existence' or 'one's own existence' ("sva-bhava" or "atma-bhava") is diametrically opposed to the consciousness of God's existence. In a system in which the sole reality of God ("ik onkar") is the first principle, there can be no room for the reality of an individual existence or one's own existence apart from, or along with, the existence of God. To say that God alone is the reality means that there is no other reality that belongs to someone else, and that there is no someone else who can claim an independent reality of their own. The truth is that there is no truth in "haumai".