Humility is a quality achieved with great effort and spiritual practice. Prayer and the repetition of the holy name of God are of help in the acquisition of humility.Sri Ramakrishna says: "Many a man with a show of humility says: 'I am like an earth-worm grovelling in the dust.' In this way, thinking themselves always to be worms, in time they become like worms. Let not despondency ever enter into your heart.
The practice of humility involves:
1. One should never have a base or inferior opinion of oneself. One should have a healthy self-respect.
2. One should respect all creation as the manifestation of God. The Indian custom of greeting others with Namaste i.e., 'Salutation to the Lord within you,' is a great custom.
3. One should never criticise or find fault with anyone.
4. One should never feel jealous of others. However humble may be our outward behaviour, entertaining jealousy indicates we are inwardly conceited.
5. One should be open-minded to receive truth from whatever source or from whomsoever it comes.
6. One should strive to unfold one's latent talents and use them in the service of the Lord. Not to do so is unspiritual.
7. Finally, one should never forget that humility means seeing God in everything.
Humility has great power; a humble man can never be destroyed. Before the power of humility, all people - kings, scholars, wealthy people - all bow down their heads in reverence; because humility is Godliness
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