The Humility of Saints and the Heart's Vision
Genuine humility, as demonstrated by great saints, arises from seeing through the heart's non-dual vision, recognizing both one's inherent divinity and personal imperfections, transcending the mind's linear judgments.
You start to see that 'I have such a long way to go,' then we remain humble at God's feet. That's how the sages were able to see. Kabir Ji himself said he's the worst.
I don't see him as the worst. That is itself the biggest problem. I don't see it. Like, they genuinely see.
So you have a long way to go, but you're not the worst?
No, I'm not seeing... otherwise I wouldn't have that anger and irritation and all that, my Father.
No, in the sense of when you say that you have a long way to go, what do you mean? A lot of work, virtues?
There are many, like most of the world does much more work than you.
I don't see that also.
Huh?
I don't see that. I feel I'm better in many, many, many ways, so I don't see.
So you're saying that you feel like you have a lot of work in this direction to go?
But most of those, let's say in this room, have even more than you to... You said you have a long way to go in relation to what?
To my own seeing, how much work.
But most of the others have a longer way to go.
Most of the others have a longer way to go. Oh, I don't see it that way.
Which way do you see it?
I never even thought of the others, actually. Maybe similar to me like that, or maybe some even worse, like I have that judgment. So I don't see myself... no way I see myself the worst. When in moments I, in my heart, I understand when a saint says that.
What do you understand?
I see that everything else is God. It's the dirt is only inside me, not in a selfing way. I see that, yeah, the only thing I miss is in me, like in my mind and everything else is just clearly God. There's no bad verse, nothing. So, it's just in those moments like when I'm saying it now, I see I'm the worst and yeah, all the dirt is...
In what way are you better than most?
In what way? Slow, Father. In what way am I better than most?
Than most?
Right now I can't.
What? Say it. Say it again.
Yeah.
You have a long way to go.
Yes.
But in what way are you better than most of the others?
When I look at it that way, then I see... like then I leave my heart and then I see from my mind that they have more pride or they are also angry or they are like this and they are like that in many different...
You don't leave your heart.
When I don't leave my heart, I'm the dirtiest. I'm the most... like I can't see... when I'm really anti, then the only work that needs to be done is inside here. Yeah. And when I'm not, then from my mind I'm seeing everything else dirty but me, actually. That's exactly...
Exactly. So where are we meant to see?
From the heart.
This is the utmost contradiction in spirituality, isn't it? And that contradiction, the heart is fully Zen. You see, the heart sees things which doesn't have the logic of opposites and therefore they can't be together. It doesn't have these restrictions. You see, so it is the heart which sees the sheer oneness with God and the sheer distance from God. You see now? When these words are spoken out like that to the logical mind and intellect, it sounds like neither here nor there. What is he actually trying to say? But those who learn to live in their hearts more and more, they will say like the one who wrote the Ramacharitmanas, which clearly is a work of the hand of God. There is no... and this is just one of the things that he produced in his life. So just to produce a scripture with so much beauty, with so much depth, with so much delight, with so much poeticism, with so much everything, you see, is clearly the hand of God. In fact, maybe we should call scripture that which is written by the Holy Spirit, by the Atma itself. So he has said in the scripture itself that he is the worst. You see, St. Teresa of Avila, while writing about the Seven Mansions, which is maybe one of the clearest road maps about the spiritual journey that the world has ever produced and clearly written with the hand of God, she says that she is the worst. You see, Kabir Ji says... Kabir Ji, one of the greatest saints, his depth of Gyan and Bhakti both put together and his ability to articulate them is unmatched in many ways, and he said that he is the worst. So as long as we continue to take linear ideas, linear yes and no, truth and false logic, you see, they are still caught in our mind, intellect. When we can accept that I am That and yet I'm nothing but the biggest, most foolish beggar servant, and these two don't seem to contradict each other but to give light and fire and love to each other, that means it's an indication that we need to just allow our heart to show us the mirror, not to gauge ourselves through the mental lens.
Key Teachings
- True humility involves recognizing one's own shortcomings and 'long way to go' on the spiritual path, as exemplified by great sages like Kabir and St. Teresa of Avila.
- The heart perceives reality beyond the dualistic logic of the mind, allowing for the simultaneous experience of oneness with God and personal imperfection.
- When seeing from the heart, everything is perceived as God, and any 'dirt' or imperfection is recognized as residing within oneself.
- Spiritual progress is indicated by a growing humility, rather than pride in spiritual knowledge or experiences.
From: The Highest Possibility for Us Is To Live in God’s Love and Light - 28th January 2026