tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post3322970321047947599..comments2013-07-14T23:43:25.671-04:00Comments on Parvati Devi: Ask Parvati 7 – Cultivating the Sweetness of HumilityParvati Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05605266879790789014noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-23250017342265841772011-04-12T23:03:15.043-04:002011-04-12T23:03:15.043-04:00Thank you for your comments and all that you have ...Thank you for your comments and all that you have shared. I love the quote from the bhajan Keval!Parvati Devihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605266879790789014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-43443851358691605112011-04-12T21:56:26.562-04:002011-04-12T21:56:26.562-04:00Reading this post, and the comments, I am reminded...Reading this post, and the comments, I am reminded of the last stanza of Amma's bhajan Wondrous Goddess:<br />Asking you with humility<br />to know the fruit of human birth.<br />Merciful and radiant Goddess<br />lovingly I bow to Thee.Kevalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03007400719415900824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-45029112287665237642011-04-12T20:27:05.429-04:002011-04-12T20:27:05.429-04:00When I first started reading the words of this blo...When I first started reading the words of this blog, I found myself becoming tense, and then emotional. I couldn't understand why. It's taken me a while to see that I have continued to hide behind a near enemy of humility, a more and more subtle and carefully disguised ongoing self-loathing. I can see that part of me was convinced that to practice humility, it was enough just to recognize my shortcomings. The humility you describe here, Parvati, is one that recognizes not just the imperfection, but the perfection that lies beneath. It is this that I was resisting, feeling unable to go there and see that in myself. <br /><br />It is so easy for those in a state of self-loathing and nobodyness to assume (as I have done in the past) that there is some sort of virtue in it, as though it is a mark of egolessness. What my emotional response helped me to see is how much ego is still very much bound up in nobodyness and self-loathing for me, and how it is just as essential to release that tendency as it is to release any sense of "I'm so great", entitlement, selfishness, etc. Thank you for a blog that answered my question not simply in words, but experientially.<br /><br />Humility, in all its tender vulnerability, is the great undoer of pretention and erroneous identification. I am most grateful that I am called to it again and again and again.Pranadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602387063784879219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-18067565703419596902011-04-11T22:00:49.668-04:002011-04-11T22:00:49.668-04:00That's beautifully said, Pranada.
Humility is...That's beautifully said, Pranada. <br />Humility is a topic that I can never hear too much about. The bible speaks a lot about humility and I've always confused it with giving up one's power. Yet I think that true humility is very powerful. Look at Gandhi for instance. I think this line says it all: "Humility teaches us a relaxed acceptance of our true nature, that we are perfect beings within a perfect universe, with imperfect qualities that require conscious attention to refine." I have to remind myself of that over and over again.Sunanda Jordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759402320377540081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-43572262506334112692011-04-11T08:09:04.586-04:002011-04-11T08:09:04.586-04:00Keval, I don't think it's a social skills ...Keval, I don't think it's a social skills thing. When the habit of self-loathing is deeply ingrained, it can be hard to see another way, and hard to begin to practice it when we do see it. It's taken me a few years of hard work and grace to come to terms with my own near-addictive tendency to be hard on myself. When that tendency holds sway over my thoughts, humility is very hard for me to understand. What this blog offers both of us is an opportunity to step back from the tendency, remember we are more than this, and be willing to accept Amma's view of us instead of our distorted view of ourselves.Pranadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602387063784879219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452645648437706747.post-27494479497900504932011-04-10T22:37:30.201-04:002011-04-10T22:37:30.201-04:00Like last week, this is another concept I don'...Like last week, this is another concept I don't really understand or get, perhaps because of my impaired social skills, though I am no stranger to self-loathing or beating myself up. Nonetheless, I look forward to reading a new blog entry every Sunday evening.Kevalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03007400719415900824noreply@blogger.com