Humility Really Cannot Be Considered A Virtue
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--Awakin
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Oct 4, 2015

 

This week's Awakin reading is by Swami Dayananda Saraswati titled 'Humility Really Cannot be Considered a Virtue': Ego and pride are closely related, almost synonymous effects born of the same cause, ignorance of the relationship of the individualized sense of I with the world. (...) Although, graced by free will, I have the power to choose my actions, I have no power over the actual result of the action chosen; the result I anticipate can never be more than a probability among possibilities. I do not produce the result. The result of any act of mine, occurs both as the product of materials that I have not authored as well as the outcome of many circumstances, past and present, known and unknown, which must operate in concert for the given result to occur. If my strong skillful arm throws the winning pass in the final seconds of an American football game, the material and circumstantial factors that come together to produce this are too many for the final ... [Read more]

 

Posted by Awakin on Oct 4, 2015