{"id":6770,"date":"2014-10-26T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:13:35","slug":"spiritual-pride-by-ram-dass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/spiritual-pride-by-ram-dass\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Pride by Ram Dass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Mad with joy, life and death dance<br \/>\nto the rhythm of this music. The<br \/>\nhills and the sea and the earth<br \/>\ndance. The world of man dances<br \/>\nin laughter and tears.<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why put on the robe of the monk, and<br \/>\nlife aloof from the world in lonely pride?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ Kabir<\/p>\n<p>A persistent trap all along the path is pride in one\u2019s spiritual purity. It\u2019s a form of one-upmanship in which you judge others out of a feeling or superiority. This ultimately limits your spiritual awakening. You can see many people who are caught in this trap of virtue \u2013 for example, in the self-righteousness of some church goers. In the yoga scene in America there are many groups of people who dress in a certain way, eat in a certain way, are special in some way that gives them an ego-enhancing feeling of purity.<\/p>\n<p>The harmful effect of this trap is not so much to one\u2019s social relationships \u2013 though they may become strained from this display of subtle arrogance \u2013 but rather the effect on oneself. This feeling of specialness or superiority inflates the ego and feeds it with pride. The best antidote to pride is humility, which leads to compassion. The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. Merely do what you can to further your own awakening.<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramdass.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ram Dass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad with joy, life and death dance to the rhythm of this music. The hills and the sea and the earth dance. The world of man dances in laughter and tears. 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