Bhagavad Gita 11.43 pitāsi lokasya carācarasya tvam asya pūjyaś ca gurur garīyān na tvat-samo ’sty abhyadhikaḥ kuto ’nyo loka-traye ’py apratima-prabhāva You are the [...]
Bhagavad Gita 10.19 śrī-bhagavān uvāca hanta te kathayiṣyāmi divyā hy ātma-vibhūtayaḥ prādhānyataḥ kuru-śreṣṭha nāsty anto vistarasya me Delighted am I, O noble one, to [...]
Humility is meant to facilitate absorption in a higher reality, not abuse by a higher authority. Humility is a vital virtue, recommended by spiritual traditions [...]
Bhagavad Gita 7.8 raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṁ nṛṣu Water’s taste is me, as is the moon’s ray, [...]
Bhagavad Gita 7.13 tribhir guṇamayair bhāvair ebhiḥ sarvam idaṁ jagat mohitaṁ nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam By nature’s modes, the world is bound. In [...]
Bhagavad Gita 11.4 manyase yadi tac chakyam mayā draṣṭum iti prabho yogeśvara tato me tvaṁ darśayātmānam avyayam O master of yoga, if it may [...]
Ego arises when we dwell on our abilities and become intoxicated by having them, parading them before others, especially those who don't have similar abilities. [...]
Bhagavad Gita 3.27 prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate "All actions arise from nature’s play, The modes of matter lead the [...]
Humility differs from low self-esteem because the two lead us to value different, even opposite, things. When we suffer from low self-esteem, we start thinking [...]
If we are judgmental, we make snap judgments about people. We blame them for actions that were almost inevitable for them given their circumstances which [...]
Don’t reduce scripture to your conceptions of what scripture should be teaching expand your conceptions to understand what scripture is actually teaching When we study [...]
To take sole credit for our abilities is to put too much burden on ourselves Amid life’s inevitable struggles, we all seek some abilities that [...]
Be terrified about how terrible you can be to never become that terrible Suppose we read about some people doing terrible things, such as terrorists [...]
Those who think they aren't prone to evil are the most prone to evil When we see someone doing something horrible, we may feel revolted, [...]
Humility means to focus on how we can serve not on what we deserve In life, we frequently feel that we don’t get what we [...]
Wrong philosophy may not obstruct people spiritually as much as our calling their philosophy wrong Suppose we encounter people who follow some philosophy in which [...]
Even if we can’t understand Krishna we can still stand under Krishna Life sometimes assaults us with devastating adversities that cripple us materially and spiritually. [...]
A missed apostrophe can be a catastrophe – we are God’s not Gods Some people hold, “We are all Gods, for we are all the [...]
If we think we have no vices we are novices A novice housekeeping employee may think that a room that appears to be clean is [...]
Humility learns even from success; pride not even from failure We often learn much more from our failures than from our successes. When we succeed, [...]
Humility is the pathway to Krishna not the password to position in a power structure Some people are humble and submissive in front of their [...]
