We Have To Give Up Wanting To Be Right

You have to give up wanting to be right. Suppose you die fully convinced with all your mind's nonsense, and you convince yourself and everyone around you that you are right. So what will happen? What will happen? Fully, fully you convince yourself that you are right—and not only yourself, and this will never happen, but suppose everybody around you also will think that you are right and you die the rightest. In your head, you were right about what you thought, you were right about your judgments, you were right about your master, you were right about the teaching, you were right about everything, you were right about how life is, everything. But it's all here, conceptual. That's how all the zombies are living anyway, thinking that they are right.

Get out of this righteousness. It's not true righteousness; it is only pride. Get out of it and step into the humility of your heart. Don't care about being right; care about God's light. That's where humility comes in. And I'm happy I'm sharing this with you because this morning, as I opened my page—the notes page for the contemplation to be posted—something felt to refer to the Narada Bhakti Sutras. Some of you may be aware of this, and one sentence attracted my attention there, which was: 'God hates pride and loves humility.'

I was going to post the contemplation about that, but then it just occurred to me in my heart that the children will not understand this, like God hating pride. Because maybe it's better said and explained rather than put in words like that. It's not that God hates, but our pride is blocking us from God. Our wanting to be right, 'I need to be seen,' 'I need to be special,' is blocking that absence of egoic belief that I'm talking about. It is stopping you from becoming quiet like Papa you want to.

So when the invitation these days is coming often from this expression, it is that we must live as if we are humble servants of God. Just because as a humble servant of God, we don't need to be right. We don't need to prove anything to the world. We don't need to become special.