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Thougth for the Day
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Thougth for the Day
If you have the slightest trace of personal likes, desires or ego, truth will not be fully seen.
Awareness Article #4
Clever King!
One should develop good qualities, however, it is very bad if pride arises in one who thinks they possess good qualities. Vinobaji tells in his treatise on the Bhagavad Gita that:
'If one is proud of his good qualities, or that he is a good man, it is better to be a bad person!’
This does not mean that I am writing and supporting those with bad qualities. This is not the meaning. If one is good and is proud of those qualities, it is worse than being a bad person. Vinobaji give the example only to show how terrible the quality of pride is. One should not know that he is a good person. When one has this much humility, pride will not arise. Once, Dharmaraja was asked to find one bad person in the world. Sometime later, he returned and said, ‘I searched the entire world, but all are good people. I alone am bad.' Dharmaraja is known as the King of Dharma. However, he had a completely different point of view about himself. In his eyes, all in the world wer e good; he alone was bad. He forgot himself. He forgot he was a good person. If this much humility is there, then there will be no pride. Though he was a King with all good qualities, he did not feel pride. One who is good, should be egoless to this extent.
'If one is proud of his good qualities, or that he is a good man, it is better to be a bad person!’
This does not mean that I am writing and supporting those with bad qualities. This is not the meaning. If one is good and is proud of those qualities, it is worse than being a bad person. Vinobaji give the example only to show how terrible the quality of pride is. One should not know that he is a good person. When one has this much humility, pride will not arise. Once, Dharmaraja was asked to find one bad person in the world. Sometime later, he returned and said, ‘I searched the entire world, but all are good people. I alone am bad.' Dharmaraja is known as the King of Dharma. However, he had a completely different point of view about himself. In his eyes, all in the world wer e good; he alone was bad. He forgot himself. He forgot he was a good person. If this much humility is there, then there will be no pride. Though he was a King with all good qualities, he did not feel pride. One who is good, should be egoless to this extent.