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[Essential Sutras]
Eight types of pride:
1. **Jatimad:** Pride in one's high and noble caste (maternal side).
2. **Kulmad:** Pride in one's high lineage (paternal side).
3. **Balmad:** Pride in one's strength.
4. **Rupmad:** Pride in one's appearance and beauty.
5. **Tapomad:** Pride in being a rigorous ascetic.
6. **Shrutad:** Pride in one's knowledge of scriptures, being a scholar.
7. **Labhpradad:** Pride in gaining desired objects, profit.
8. **Aishwaryamad:** Pride in one's dominion.
**Discussion:** These eight types of pride are mentioned in the Samavayanga Sutra. Ganadhar Gautam asked Sri Mahavira Swami:
"O Bhagavan! What benefit does a being gain by conquering pride?"
The Lord answered: "Conquering pride brings gentleness, no new karma is bound, and the previously bound karma is destroyed." - Uttara.Su.A.29.
Meaning: Conquering pride brings gentleness, no new karma is bound, and the previously bound karma is destroyed.
Pride makes a person's mind soar high, and when they fall, there is a risk of their head being crushed.
In the world, pride, arrogance, and vanity are considered like dogs. Just as a dog licks and makes impure when loved, and bites when beaten, similarly, nurturing pride leads to disgrace, and when pride is shattered, it can lead to the end of one's life. Therefore, it is said:
"The pain of death is momentary, but the pain of pride being shattered is a constant torment."