The Law of Humility - Sadhu Vaswani

Young men have often asked: "Why must we have humility? Is it not enough if we do social good? What need has a social worker, a national leader, of humility?

May I remind such young men of the old mystical teaching that the worker is the Secret God and man only His instrument? If the consciousness would grow upon us that the Worker, the Helper, the Savior of the Nations is He Himself, we would cease to be proud. Humility springs spontaneous out of this sense of God as the Great Worker.

Zarathushtra gives us a significant picture of Hell. He says: "In Hell though the souls are as close to one another as are the ears to the eyes, and as numerous as the hair in the mane of a horse, yet every one feels himself alone!"

Much of the misery of modern life comes from loneliness. Much strength may come to us out of a sense that in our work we are in contact with a Greater-than-ourselves. In consciousness of dependence on the Divine, in a sense of allegiance to the Living Infinite Ideal, is the richness of life.

Humility is not self-condemnation. It is self-renunciation. Humility, at its highest, is being nothing. And to be "nothing," to be a "zero," is to meet the Secret God. It is to see Him as the One Mighty Worker.

© "East and West Series" (February, 2002) published by East and West Series, 10, Sadhu Vaswani Path, Pune 411 001. Reprinted with permission.

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