Pride

Pride is a feeling of satisfaction in one’s own or another’s ability, accomplishments, or worth. Pride can be seen as both a morally positive and negative attitude, depending on the circumstances.

Acknowledging that we were hasty in our arguments often means humbling ourselves and making ourselves small, acknowledging that we were wrong. Forgiveness or release
forgiveness
is not to have “amnesia” about what happened, but to be willing to restore the damaged relationship.

From remorse to forgiveness is a short distance, but the space is large enough for pride to reside. A feeling that will try to convince us that the act of apologizing
apologizing
or recognize your mistake is the attitude of the weak.

Weapons against pride

The Emotion

Forgiveness

Inner reflection and firm resolution

Pranic Psychotherapy in the affected chakras

Pride disguises fear in the face of certain circumstances. The acquisition of knowledge often makes a man lazy and proud, while karma can make a man proud. Unless a spiritual aspirant is able to get rid of these defects, he cannot establish himself in kevala bhakti (complete devotion), which is absolutely essential for God-realization. The wise, therefore, will adopt a conduct that frees them from the evil effects of knowledge and action.

The golden rule for getting rid of your own defects is to create the opposite feeling in your mind and put it into practice.

Types of Pride

Pride is mainly of three kinds, and each of them has disastrous results.

1. The first type of pride is vanity, which arises when a person thinks he deserves more than he is getting, which causes him to develop an arrogant attitude toward others. Whoever indulges in this, loses his discriminative judgment, just as happens to a drunkard. Man is different from the animal only because he possesses discrimination and intellect. Just as a drunkard gradually loses this priceless quality, a man full of pride also becomes deprived of this faculty. Since the loss of the rational faculty is against the fundamental human virtues, drinking is a sin. In the same way pride is also a sin and leads to the decay of the individual.
2. Self-aggrandizement is the second type of pride. By being full of vanity, a person wants to project his image in an exaggerated way. Often you hear someone say that they have a rose the size of a balloon in their garden, when the real rose can be the size of a ping-pong ball. Constantly indulging in this kind of activity converts the mind to materiality.
3. The third type of pride is prestige, which is the desire to make oneself known. One expects attention from everyone and longs for name and fame. This mental state can easily be compared with the mental condition of a beggar. The beggar asks for money from others while the person who wants prestige begs others to respect him. Such desire is really meaningless and worthless.

Pride can initially be a simple thought-form that with psychic stimuli of different kinds can evolve into a larva or an elemental. The stronger the stimulus, the greater the person’s loss of mental matter and the denser and more vital the larva becomes, especially when that psychic stimulus is constantly repeated. In more sensitive, better educated and stimulable people, the mental matter is more easily detached, so the larvae appear more often and more intensely.