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Acharya Prashant: A mind free of stories about itself, is a humble mind. The story could say everything. The story does not always say, “I am the king of the world.” Often the story says, “I am the most wretched person on this earth.” Nevertheless, irrespective of its content, a story is just a story.

So, what is ‘humility’? To not to live in the stories about oneself.

So, humility is not about having a poor or humble story about oneself. Humility is not about saying, “O! I am the little one. O! I am the speck of dust in this giant universe.” You could have a big story about a big monster, and you could have an equally big story about a little speck of dust. Right?

It is not the size of the character that matters. It is the story around the character, that is the pain.

When we attempt to be humble, then we just reduce the size of the character, and apparently, a relatively, new story comes up. But the size of the story remains the same, we said, irrespective of the size of the central character of the central figure of the story. Are you getting it?

Therefore, humility is a certain cleanliness. Humility is a certain absence – an absence of ideas and stories about oneself. To be humble is to live in the facts of one’s life, irrespective of how the facts appear.

So can we say that ‘humility’ and ‘honesty’ are two different words? Are they? Really? And then, can we say that ‘humility’ and ‘understanding’ are different words? They are not. Are you getting it?

If you are not humble, it directly implies that you do not know yourself. Because you do not know yourself, the reaction to ignorance is imagination. Why else do you need to imagine? Imagination is a reaction to a lack of self-knowledge. When you do not ‘know’, then you need to weave stories and imagine.

I will repeat this, irrespective of what your story says about you – a story is merely a story. You cannot be humble as long as you put a lot of trust in your myths, in your stories.

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