HUMILITY

HUMILITY
Another great quality of the devotees of God or Krishna is humility, everything that happens to us in this world, individually and collectively, the cause is our fault, as the Christians say: "through my fault, through my fault and my great guilt ", and this way of thinking is called humility. Humility also means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. One time I was listening to a lecture by a great saint scholar, and at the end of the conference, said: "Are there any questions?", Then a very polite Indian gentleman, began to make very good and philosophical questions, great saint and scholar , the answer was a perfect manner and masterful. The gentleman who was asking, listening to the answers so good that he was giving the great sage, went into ecstasy and began to glorify the holy scholar, saying: "In my life I have found a spiritual master as genuine as you, in my life seen anyone answer me these questions as well as you ... "Then the scholar saint without a word, he saw that this man was glorifying left.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada (1874-1936), in his time, he was in India the highest authority in the cult of bhakti-yoga. Yoga means the science of one's relationship with God and bhakti means love or devotion to God, in other words, the basis of his preaching was to show how we can relate to and love God. To give you an idea of his superhuman qualities, he at seven years old, he memorized all 700 verses containing the Bhagavad-gita, this book is sometimes called "The Bible of India." Not only memorized, but bright could comment on them. He established in 64 temples across India where teaching and practicing bhakti-yoga. Practically speaking, he influenced the whole of India and its temples were the inspiration for the practice of spiritual life throughout India. There is a very touching story on this great personality. He was giving some lectures in Calcutta, and every day a man was there, and in the middle of the conference began to insult him, throwing insults, such as "you are a deceiver, everything he says is not true, you are a trickster, ... etc.. "After insulting him, he left. One day Srila Bhaktisiddhanta came to the temple and had a big party. He asked, What is this? Why should this great party? And his disciples delighted told that were celebrating the death of the man who came to insult every day, had been hit by a truck. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, to hear this news, he was very serious, to the point that he began to mourn, and between sobs said, "That man was my best friend, because it made me remember who I am." Srila Bhaktisiddhanta always used to say: " One who glorifies me is my enemy. "
This quality of humility, you can not appreciate it from the standpoint of material, since the material conception of life makes one very anxious to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man who has knowledge perfect, ie, someone who has realized that I am not this temporary material body, but I am an eternal spirit soul, anything, honor or dishonor, belonging to this body is useless.