Question: How can I practice becoming truly humble, my dear Prabhu???

[krsna]

 

 

How to Become Humble

 

 

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura recommends that we become humble by practicing the following meditation:

 

"The earth, which is always visible to me, is the expansion of the lotus feet of my Lord, who is always to be meditated upon.

 

All moving and nonmoving living beings have taken shelter of the earth and are thus sheltered at the lotus feet of my Lord.

 

For this reason I should respect every living being and not envy anyone. In fact, all living entities constitute the Kaustubha gem on my Lord's chest.

 

Therefore I should never envy or deride any living entity."

 

By practicing this meditation one can achieve success in life.

 

(SB 12.11.24, purp.)

[bija]

I am thinking of our poster friend Ancient Mariner's often used quote:

 

'float your boat'

 

...it must be a grand oceanic theme.

 

So humility?

 

Well how about the realization:

 

'We are all in this boat together'

 

and from that

 

'How did we all end up in this boat together?'

 

When we set sail and see land again after sometime...maybe that is our common ground: humility. We all took the journey in the big boat:crazy2:.