Become Free of Ego

SRI RAMAKRISHNA





Rainwater will never stand still on high ground, but will run down to the lowest level: to become great, one must be humble. The nest of the skylark is on the earth below, though it soars high into the sky . High ground is not fit for cultivation, low ground is necessary so that water may stand on it. Unless one becomes as simple as a child, one cannot reach divine illumination.Give up your vanity about worldly knowledge that you have acquired, and know it to be futile in the realm of higher truth. Be as simple as a child, and then only you will reach the knowledge of the True.Have no egotistical feeling, such as the conceit of the preacher, “I am lecturing, hear me all of you!“ Egotism exists in ignorance, not in knowledge.He attains the Truth who is void of conceit. The tree laden with fruit always bends low.So, if you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
The iron must be heated several times and hammered a hundred times before it becomes good steel. Then only it becomes fit to be made into a sharp sword and can be bent in any way you like. So, man must be heated several times in the furnace of tribulations and hammered with the persecutions of the world before he becomes pure and humble.
The scale that is heavier bends down, but the lighter scale of the balance rises up.So, the man of merit and ability is always humble and meek, but the fool is always puffed up with vanity .