True humbleness is simply egolessness.
It is dropping all personality and the decorations
that you have accumulated around you,
And just being like a small child who does not know who he is,
Who does not know anything about the world. His eyes are clear;
He can see the greens of the trees more sensitively than you can see
The humble man knows nothing.
He has come back the full circle to his childhood innocence.
He is full of wonder.
He sees mysteries everywhere.
He collects stones and seashells on the sea beach,
And rejoices as if he has found diamonds and emeralds and rubies.
Childhood has an immense clarity.
In that clarity, in that transparency,
In that perspective the whole world looks a miracle.
The humble man comes back to this miraculous existence.
We take it for granted,
But you don’t see how from the same soil a lotus flower blossoms,
And a rosebush, and millions of other flowers.
The earth has no colors;
From where do those beautiful colors come?
The earth is very rough; from where do the velvety roses come?
The earth has no greenery; from where do the green trees come?
The humble man is as if a child again.
He has no claim, but only gratitude – gratitude for everything;
Even gratitude for things for which you cannot conceive
how one can be grateful.
Your compassion is infinite! And you know our poverty –
We cannot give you anything except our heartfelt gratitude.”
God is giving me the opportunity to show that
It is not only on good days that
I am grateful; whatever happens
My gratefulness will remain unwavering.
Even in my death I will be dying with the same words on my lips.”
A humble man lives an unconditional life of gratitude –
Not only gratitude to God,
But gratitude to
Human beings,
To trees,
To stars
To everything........Neelanjan
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