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Pride

 

Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance--these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Prtha. GITA 16:4

Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes against the real religion. GITA 16:181. The pride of goodness, is the root of evil.2. By renouncing selfishness and pride, one attains saintliness.3. Pride in our intellect, prevents the words of scriptures (Sastras) and saints, to remain adn last in the inner faculty. 4. Whatever is special about a particular class, race, stage in life etc., is for the service of others, not for pride and vanity. 5. As much pride as you take in your goodness, that much evil will be created. Therefore be good, but do not be proud and egoistic about your goodness. 6. Knowledge frees (liberates), but pride of that knowledge leads to hell.7. In acquiring worldly objects,

one can become proud, but in attaining God, pride can never arise; rather pride is entirely and in every way wiped out.8. Without giving up selfishness and pride, man cannot become most excellent and great. 9. Where there is pride of race, nationality, family lineage, class etc., there the presence of devotion is very difficult; because devotion takes place in the Self (swayam), not through the body. But class, race, nationality, lineage etc. is of the body, and not of the Self. 10. So long as there is selfish and pride, till that time, there cannot be love for anyone. 11. A proud person serves less, but he feels he has served much more. But a humble person does not realize much, but is able to serve a lot more. 12. An intelligent person's vanity, arises from his foolishness.13. That which is one's own, does not make one vain, and that which is not one's own,

there is no pride and vanity in that as well. Vanity comes from that which is not one's own, but it is assumed to be one's own. 14. Whatever is known, assuming it to be complete knowledge and by being proud, man becomes an atheist. By not being content with what is known and to become uneasy with the non-existence of knowledge, man becomes an "enquirer", a seeker. 15. That organization, community, creed, ideology, scripture, person etc., that stresses upon renunciation of selfishness and pride, they are extra-ordinary. Whereas, where there is predominance of pride and selfishness, they are drawn down and wretched.