Akrura prabhu - Artificial Humility is better than being Spontaneously Offensive!
H.G. Akrura prabhu
'We must not accept the propaganda and preaching of our mind. The mind will tell us "Just wait, you will show everyone that you are the most qualified devotee and all others are unworthy." The mind says like this. It is so difficult to control, that we should beat our mind into submission to the Supersoul on a daily basis, by attentively chanting. But how to control? How to become humble? It seems the mind makes us spontaneously offensive. Which is why we should offer all respects to the devotees. For example, in the queue for prasadam, "Prabhuji, please you go first".
'Even if we are not at all sincere - it is better to be artificially humble than spontaneously offensive!'
Paraphrased from a Chaitanya Charitamrita class.
ISKCON Radha-Krishna Temple, Soho St, London, February 2006.
http://nimesh0775.blogspot.com/
'We must not accept the propaganda and preaching of our mind. The mind will tell us "Just wait, you will show everyone that you are the most qualified devotee and all others are unworthy." The mind says like this. It is so difficult to control, that we should beat our mind into submission to the Supersoul on a daily basis, by attentively chanting. But how to control? How to become humble? It seems the mind makes us spontaneously offensive. Which is why we should offer all respects to the devotees. For example, in the queue for prasadam, "Prabhuji, please you go first".
'Even if we are not at all sincere - it is better to be artificially humble than spontaneously offensive!'
Paraphrased from a Chaitanya Charitamrita class.
ISKCON Radha-Krishna Temple, Soho St, London, February 2006.
http://nimesh0775.blogspot.com/
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