Being unassuming does not exactly mean being
humble; it means being free of the assumptions that we might make or might have
made in past while interacting with the world around us. It is also much
different from being judgmental, because the process of interaction, in itself,
is not the process of drawing inferences or conclusions.
We are bundles of previous experiences that are
much entwined with each other making a formidable bulk of untruth, When we
interact with others, well-known, less-known or unknown or the outside world,
the untruth settled inside us come to the fore to interfere with our thinking
process. It makes us much vulnerable to drawing inferences on the basis of
faulty premises. While this is the biggest cause that often upsets human
relationships, it becomes more damaging when we begin to think more seriously
about our lives.
Being unassuming is very difficult and it becomes
extremely difficult in the latter part of one’s life. One has to analyze each
interaction that the one makes with the outside world to eliminate what is
inconsistent with the truth. It has to be done for a prolonged period of time,
several times in a day, till the process of rejecting the untruth from the
external world and flushing out the pollutants settled within the self is
complete.
But, why should we feel disheartened about the
difficulties that we might face in being unassuming, because, after all, the
very assumption that being unassuming is difficult, may itself be faulty? When
we rigorously practice something putting our heart and soul into it, we do,
often, receive support from unknown sources and the practice continues even
without our knowing about it.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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