A Teacher's Confession | Ananta on Spiritual Pride

Now, what is the most dangerous form of pride that I have come across? Spiritual pride. Now, and I hope all of you will become teachers of God one day. The dharma of the teacher is what? The teacher cannot... Exactly. The teacher cannot be saying, "You must be empty for God," and themselves be full of themselves, especially when sharing Satsang.

So, the constant effort and the constant work, lifelong vigilance, lifelong work for all of us, is to smell for our own pride, to remain empty especially when sharing Satsang, to be as transparent an instrument of Atma as possible. And it is a very, very difficult project.

Because one of the forms of the ego wanting to rule the world, how does it know it's ruling the world? If it is being revered, if it is being worshipped. So, as a teacher of God, when the reverence, when the worship, when the devotion is directed in our direction, if it finds a stop over there, it is the most dangerous.

It must be, like a good priest in the temple, must be offered to the Lord as soon as possible. Because if it stops over there even for a short time, it can corrode our own growth, our own spirituality.

So, if, to illustrate, some of you said, "Father, in your objective." And that is beautiful, that is your dharma. But if this foolish boy was to ever feel like, yes, he has something to offer to all of you, or any of you, you see, then this foolish boy is in the biggest trouble of his life without realizing it.