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Even a person with less scriptural knowledge can annihilate his Karmas, if he has humility.
Mahavira said, "Pride, which is unbending like a pillar of stone, drags the soul to hellish existence. Wipe out the persistence of ego, the number one enemy of compassion."
When pride is overcome, a person becomes modest. It's hard to be humble. There is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Violence comes from ego; it does not belong to the soul. Pride is violence and humbleness is non-violence. Pride is the source of fear. More feared more pride. Intolerance itself is a form of egotism. Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe of clothes, a fine home etc. It is ego they cannot forgo. One who feels himself to be wise and more important than the rest, blocks his progress and stagnates. A person who is proud is disliked by all. Pride means I am something. Humbleness means giving up this madness. A true monk is one who is not proud of his own lineage, beauty, gains and scriptural knowledge. Thus discarding all pride, he remains deeply immersed in the spiritual contemplation.Mahavira said, “A person who is proud is disliked by all. He definitely confronts conflicts, enemity, fear, grief and disrespect in this world and the next. A person who is not modest should not be instructed about right conduct, of what use are the ornaments for the person whose hands are muted.
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Mahavira said, "Whatever you do, do yourselves and for yourselves and so if one is humble it is for himself and not for the other person. Noble persons
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