Confucius has rightly said: “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” Humility is performing one's duty and achieving the goal without any attitude of ownership and appreciation. This quality is the natural manifestation of a person, who is selfless and completely free from the vices of anger, greed, ego, attachment and lust.

The quality of humility is a source of natural expression of the virtues of soul. A humble soul remains easy and simple in all the situations and attains the best possible results of all his actions. A person with humility does not have any element of anger and aggressiveness. Rather, he has obedience, honesty and truthfulness, which help him to eradicate all sorts of selfishness.

Humility should not be taken as weakness; instead, it is the power of divine strength. Humility enhances one's honesty and judiciousness; hence, a person, who attains self-respect, tolerance and co-operation as his qualities of life; humility grows naturally in him; and he is, generally, loved and respected by all he comes in contact with. Great souls like Dada Lekhraj (Brahma Baba), Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Buddha were great practitioners and teachers of humility. They were wise and mature; they did not have any ego or pride.

Humility easily makes us egoless. The seed of humility automatically enables us to attain the fruit of greatness. Humility is the easy method of claiming blessings from the heart of everyone. A soul with humility is easily given a place of love in everyone's heart. Humility automatically makes us worthy of praises. There needs to be humility in our thoughts, attitudes, perceptions, words, actions and also in our connections and relationships in our family, places of learning and workplaces.

The sign of mercy is humility. We should be merciful towards the ignorant, distressed souls in our family and outside as well. When we become merciful, there is self-progress because a merciful soul constantly and naturally has the attitude of unlimited disinterest. We should always be aware that we are essentially and originally the souls, the spiritual entities, who belong to the Highest-on-high Supreme Spiritual Father, and have the aim of becoming equal to the Father.

If we have the firm faith that we are souls, the self-luminous points of divine light, and become true Rajyogi by contemplating on God's knowledge; then, we shall automatically learn to be humble. We should practice humility enough to kill all sorts egotism. The monster of ego has no business to come near us because we are God's humble instruments of spiritual service to all souls of the world and Nature.

When we have complete and unquestioning faith in God, the Supreme Soul, and surrender ourselves to Him and think that whatever we have has come to us only as God's gift to be enjoyed, humility is inculcated in us and there is nothing left to make us feel ego and become proud. Only those, who have superficial knowledge or who have fallen from the state of soul-consciousness, are subject to inroads of egotism.

When the divine knowledge is properly assimilated and Rajyoga is rightly practised, these automatically free man from the vice of ego or pride and makes him naturally humble.

BK Sujoy