Pride (ghamand)

Pride is one such attribute in an individual which makes him/ her to say that he/ she is the doer. I did this/ I did that etc, wherein "I" depicts the pride in a person. A prideful person who thinks he/she is the doer of everything is called a fool by Lord Krishna. Such people fail to understand that its not them but the attributes within them which makes them do everything. And these attributes come from the nature of a person. The nature of the person arises from his surroundings i.e prakrati. What an individual faces, sees around him, he becomes the same. For instance, if you live with an abusive person then you naturally inherit that quality. If you are with a person who is always angry, you inherit the same anger from him and so on. Not only the surroundings but also the good and bad situations that we face , help us nurture our characters. When a kid is born, it does not possess any kind of characters and nature within it. It learns everything from whatever it sees around it. No one is ever born bad or good, it's the attributes that this surrounding adds in an individual which makes him evil minded or good minded. Similarly is the feeling of pride, in which a person never realises that it's his attributes and nature which makes him do his karma. Be it any achievement or evil things it's our nature that makes us do it. Hence never use the word "I" ever, never hold the feeling of pride within yourself. Because everything in this world happens on the almighty's permission. If you are doing an evil deed, then he is allowing you to do it and the same is for any achievement. You are not the doer, never think yourself to be the doer of things in life. All of us are just those soldiers in the field who move as per the instructions of the almighty who is the king and the creator of this entire world. Hence to be a good person, it is important to take all the negatives from within us and never say that "I did it". Lord Krishna explains the same in his bhagavat gita . When Arjuna at the start of the war, drops his weapons and refuses to fight. Krishna starts his bhagawat gita there. Arjuna says that " I won't fight against my family, I won't do it. I can't take their lives". Here Arjuna uses "I", he in his pride and ego thinks that he is the doer in the war. Krishna who slowly explains Arjuna his karma, the definition between a soul and a body, the actual meaning of devotion, at the end speaks about this pride of arjun. He shows arjuna his vishwaroopam avataram with many heads and hands. Arjuna stunned to see Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma, Lord Ganesha and other lords as a part of Lord Krishna, also witnesses the people in the battlefield running inside the mouths of every lord. He sees the soldiers, bhishma, dhronacharya, karna, duryodhan and his 99 brothers running into the lord's mouths. Arjuna is stunned and he is not able to see this scene anymore. He requests Lord Krishna to come back to his normal self. After which, Lord Krishna explains Arjuna that the ones for whom he is refusing to fight with are already killed by the former himself. Lord Krishna says, " Parth ( Arjuna), you are just a mode for me to fulfil my motive in this war. These people have already been killed by me, and hence if you don't kill them then I will do it myself because their death time has arrived. But tomorrow the world will call you a coward, so take your weapons and fight them." Krishna here also tells Arjuna that he is not the doer, but only a follower of his instructions. He asks Arjuna to fulfil the responsibility allocated to him and fight the war. He asks him to leave his pride and ego, and stop thinking that he is the one who is doing. He tells him that his nature ( born a kshatriya) and his attributes will not let him quit the war, and asks him to fight. Arjuna who till then refused to fight, now agrees to fight the war. He now knows the real identity of Lord Krishna and is doubt free. He is no more confused as well. So friends, if Arjuna had this pride and ego and it was harmful for him then the same applies to us as well. Never use the word "I" ever.

Radhe Radhe,