Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Pride

 

1. 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.