Swami Vishwananda speaks about Humility

Many people tell me “Swamiji, it’s very difficult; it’s very difficult to be humble.”  It’s true. Some people 

told me again today it’s difficult. Actually, all of you want to Realise God and to Realise God one also has to develop the qualities of the Divine.

So for Godnothing is difcult and everything is possible, but for the human mind, with human limitations, everything is impossible. If you transcend this mind and yourself, everything will be easy. It all depends on how you think of things. If you think it is difficult, it will become difcult. Like I have always said, God is the Creator, but part of this Creator is present inside of us. When we create the barrier and think that it’s difcult, when we become the creator of this big barrier, then it will become difcult. But when we say “Yes, I can transcend everything” we become positive towards ourselves. We develop the qualities and we make it happen. 

A story about Kali Ma

There was once a devotee of Kali who lived near Dakshineswar. It was not Ramakrishna, it was a priest, and his love for the Divine Mother was sooo great, that he would praise the Mother wherever he was. In his house, there were no food. So he went and beg, but people refused to give him food. Then the Divine Mother disguised Herself as a fruit-seller, and went to his house where She gave some vegetables and some rice to the wife and said, “Cook them. Your husband sent me here.”

When the husband came back to home, the wife told him: “Oh, thank you, to have sent this lovely lady, who brought some vegetables and some rice for us to eat. But now I don’t see her anymore and she went without saying bye.” Later, when they opened the door of the temple, they saw that the cloths that the Lady had been wearing, were now on the statue of Kali!”

How to be humble

How to be humble? How to awake this love? How to awake this humility inside?” Because we are hanging so much on to this big ego or pride, we always say “I”, “mine” “me.” Have you ever counted how many times in a day you use these words? If you would count them, you would scare yourself. A lot of times! It’s true, we have different “I”s. There is the “I” of the ego and there is the “I” of the Self, but most often, what our mind firstly understands, is the “I” of egoism. And with this, it’s very difficult to awake love. Even if love awakes, it gets diluted with the power of the mind. The ego is so strong.

It’s true that to achieve realization, to achieve God, we have to be humble. But there is one problem: very often, when someone sees himself as humble, he starts to say, “I am very humble.” These people are very proud people. What is this called? - The ego of humility, the pride of humility. Actually, it’s very difficult to be humble, but it’s not impossible.