Arrogance will prevent you from serving people well. It finishes off whatever honesty there was in your service. Your service to others become limited by selfish motives. You use it to inflate your limited sense of self. The sign of … Continue reading
Arrogance usually begins from external things, but it ends up deep inside the soul, penetrating everything, destroying it all. Arrogance creates anger and greed. Think about it. A person with ego always has a lot of anger and greed. There … Continue reading
Humility and arrogance are enemies. Where there is arrogance, there cannot possibly be humility. And where there is humility, there cannot possibly be arrogance. If you have dislike, hatred or jealousy for anyone, you can’t have humility. If you have … Continue reading
Humility as a power is based on a very elevated awareness of who you are. Such a high state of consciousness makes you very cool, very peaceful and very loving. One with humility is full of both love and respect. … Continue reading
Some people feel that to have humility or to be humble involves bowing down and being subservient to others. They find it difficult to cultivate their humility. This has not been my experience. To me, humility means to understand the … Continue reading
Sometimes people are not open to being touched by humility. They do not yet understand its power, and so they take advantage of your attitude, thinking you are weak. If this is the case, then the first thing to remember … Continue reading
There is a great deal of power in humility. Sometimes it is useful for your own protection. Sometimes it is useful in the protection of others. The power of humility allows you to see the benefit in everything, even in … Continue reading
Self-respect is a state of inner dignity which brings great benefit to the self. No matter what the situation, it makes everything easy and light. You have to look after your self-respect so carefully, making sure you never lose it. … Continue reading
Humility makes you simple and truthful. The more humility you have, the greater will be your understanding of truth. And vice versa.
The power of Truth is such that you need never be concerned about proving it. Trying to prove Truth reveals only your own stubbornness. You need only be concerned with being it and living it, your own self. Truth is … Continue reading
SHIVA DARSHAN 