Power of Humility

09 Oct

Power of Humility

To elevate oneself in bhakti, there are obstacles and bhakti itself can eliminate those obstacles but what is going to keep us on track with bhakti? Or how does it begin? It begins with association of devotees-bhaktas they are carrying bhakti but there has to be some.. at certain point at least a willingness to accept that gift that the bhaktas are giving. So humility is an essential element beginning, middle and end. Just like faith is essential element beginning, middle and mature stages of bhakti. Humility, it also grows as faith grows naturally. In Viswanath Chakravarti Thakur’s description of 9 stages of bhakti at one stage he says that they can be described as different stages of faith. Faith and faith and faith and faith and faith and faith and faith and faith and faith….nine. It starts with faith and ends with the mature stage of that faith is prema. And there is an object in which one has faith and that is Krsna.