Category:Pride of a Devotee of God
Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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Pages in category "Pride of a Devotee of God"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
A
- A devotee should not be proud of his acquisitions
- A Vaisnava accepts sannyasa out of humility, not out of pride
- At any moment all one's material opulence can be finished; therefore a devotee is never proud of such opulence. He is always humble and meek, considering himself lower than a piece of straw. Because of this, he is eligible to return home, back to Godhead
F
- Free from pride and envy, they (the devotees) easily gain the mercy of the Lord and go back home, back to Godhead
- From this statement one can understand that the pure devotees, those who are actually engaged in the service of the Lord, are always very cautious and are never overly proud of their service
H
- He (Maharaj Pariksit) was not falsely proud, for a devotee of the Lord is equally as powerful as the Lord or sometimes more powerful by His grace
- He (Maharaja Pariksit) felt proud that he happened to be the descendant of such great devotees. Such pride for the devotees of the Lord is certainly not equal to the puffed-up sense of vanity for material prosperity
T
- The first (the pride of a devotee) is reality, whereas the other (vanity for material prosperity) is false and vain
- The great sage Narada Muni was very proud of having a devotee-disciple like Dhruva Maharaja
- The Lord (Caitanya) told him (Vallabha Acarya) that his pride in being superior to Sridhara Svami was not at all befitting a Vaisnava
- This kind of pride (of becoming a great devotee of Lord Visnu) in a devotee is never tolerated. A Vaisnava should always remain very humble and meek and offer respect to others
W
- When a devotee becomes a little proud, the Supreme Lord sometimes exhibits His supreme power to dissipate the devotee's misunderstanding. After being amply harassed by Lord Visnu's potency, Lord Siva resumed his normal, unagitated condition
- When a devotee, in spite of possessing all the qualities of pure realization, is not proud of his position, he is called prideless