Spiritualizing our Actions, the Cultivation of Humility  Pride
and it's opposite humility. Redirect praise, avoid spiritual
pride. Karma yoga, spiritualizing our actions, is effective in
increasing humility and reducing pride. Work is worship.
Unedited Transcript:  When I opened TAKA this morning, Gurudeva
spoke to me, he said: "Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity;
humility denotes awareness."  So I said: "Well, why don't I
speak on that this morning."  So, I thought of something I'd
written up. It's a work in progress on spiritualizing our
actions, otherwise know as karma yoga.  "An aspect of our nature
that needs to be brought under control to achieve solid
spiritual progress is the innate pride of the ego. Webster's
dictionary defines pride as an unduly high opinion of oneself;
exaggerated self-esteem' conceit. The opposite of pride of
course, is humility. Unfortunately, our modern educational
system at the university level quite often increases in students
their sense of intellectual pride. A way of mea