Real Greatness
Your experience in yourself the feeling of greatness or lowliness in view of things that are subject to production and destruction – This is a big blunder.
For example, certain people regard themselves as great ones in view of the wealth they own, few consider themselves great because big bungalows are in their possession, others feel great by wearing fine dresses, while still others proclaim their greatness owing to the high office of decorum or dignity they occupy; there are, however, few ones who regard themselves quite low or small in view of the non-availability of these things. This is a very big mistake.
You are yourself an inalienable, sparkling part of God and are consciousness! And, you hold yourself big or small in relation to inert gross material things only- this is nothing but lowliness of your attitude ! You are the earner and enjoyer of these things, knower of their beginning and their end as well. Why yet should you be a slave of such things? Riches come and go, friendly listeners meet and part away in life. Once we know this simple truth, what a mistake do we commit by feeling big or small only on their count !
Think a little, please, and immediately it would strike your intelligence that if you are great merely because you occupy a high or significant rank, then you are really small as you are; dignity is only the office. If we are great by obtaining wealth, then the greatness lies not in us but only in the wealth. We are not great. Sooner we realize this, better it is that we should never feel high or low on the strength of things which are mere transitory or of fleeting nature.
You are yourself immensely great. Ordinarily, you are part and parcel of the Supreme Divine Being i.e., God, but in case you ascend to sublimely devotional heights, you are the crest-jewel of Divinity. God Himself says:
” I am the servant of my devotees,
Devotees my crest-jewel be !”
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