The Spiritual Ego.

  Anju and me while loafing around yesterday evening ended in the Iskcon temple.

There was kirtan going on and I requested that we would like to participate for just a little while.

The gang leader ...my God the arrogance on her face...and the way she asked me ...what can you sing?? as if we were  there to do some item song.

I understand they already have  fixed schedule and we were just new to them.

The tone could have been polite and saying NO is totally fine if done in a dignified manner.

Well everyone doesn't know that there is a word GRACE.

You may do 100 rounds of chants ...endless kirtan but if you don't have the humility and grace you are a piece of SHIT! 

Tall...dark....not always guys...but 

The spiritual ego !!! 

In the same breath I like to share here  the way Anju takes attendance for the online kirtan group in the evening and welcomes everyone to sing......chant ...speaks about the strength of this group.

As Ashish mentioned to me, this group is not a cult!

God bless you all ❤️.

Everyone is precious.

A Small Story:

By the way ..I did call the gang leader out on her arrogance in a dignified manner.

The spiritual ego is very subtle, it is like fragrance. You don’t stumble; it does not hit you like a rock. You cannot remove easily as you can remove a rock. It is a subtle fragrance. The more spiritual you become, the more subtle your ego becomes. Your ego becomes pious, and when the poison is pious, of course it is more dangerous because you think it is nectar; inside the bottle is the same poison.

Hence your saints are more egoistic than your sinners. There is every hope for the sinners; they can reach to God far more easily than your so-called saints. Your saints are living with such egoistic attitudes; they are full of holy cow dung, rubbish.

The man of the world claims that he has so much money and the religious man claims he has so much virtue. The worldly man claims he has so much virtue. The worldly man claims he has so much power, so much prestige, and your so-called holy man claims he also has power – spiritual power. He tries to show his spiritual power.

Once, such a so-called spiritual man came to see Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna was sitting on the bank of the Ganges in Dakshineshwar, when he used to live. The spiritual man said to Ramakrishna, “I have heard that you are a great saint. If you really are, then come with me and walk on the water. If you can walk on the water then I can believe that you are spiritual.”

Ramakrishna laughed. He said, “Can you walk on water?”

The man said, “Yes, I can.”

Ramakrishna asked him, “How long did it take you to learn to walk in the water?”

 The man said, “I am not spiritual, I am a simple man, very ordinary. But one thing I would like to tell you. When I want to go to the other shore, the ferryman takes me for just one paisa. Your whole eighteen years’ effort is not worth much more than that. You wasted your eighteen years. You may be spiritual, but you are fool, you are utterly stupid. I have never come across such as unintelligent person – wasting eighteen years just to walk on water. Then what is the point? Okay, you can walk on water, so what?

This is the spiritual ego, which will go sooner or later to exhibit its power to prove “I am holier than you.” That man had come with that idea – to prove to Ramakrishna “I am holier than you, I am higher than you.”