Theme
for the Month of May
Humility, Simplicity
and Purity of Heart
Poem for the
month:
Merit? Merit? Brother, who told thee I had merit?
Merit have I none, nor ever did I have.
What merit hath the straw?
The weaver shapes a basket with it.
If the basket be fair it is not the merit of the straw;
It is his skill who maketh it.
I am that straw which once lay at the great Weaver's feet.
But He, the Compassionate, took it in His hand and fashioned it.
Now I cherish this basket of His fashioning
To gather His blessing.
From the Bhagavad Gita:
Humility, unostentatiousness, non-injuring, forgiveness, simplicity, purity, steadfastness, self-control;
this is declared to be wisdom; what is opposed to this is ignorance.
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