SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT ALLOW FOR SUPERIORITY COMPLEX AND NEGLECT IN ACCORDING DUE RESPECT TO THE SO-CALLED COMMONER NEITHER DOES IT PERMIT PANDERING TO THE VANITIES OF THE PRIVILEGED AND THE POWERFUL

SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT ALLOW FOR SUPERIORITY COMPLEX AND NEGLECT IN ACCORDING DUE RESPECT TO THE SO-CALLED COMMONER NEITHER DOES IT PERMIT PANDERING TO THE VANITIES OF THE PRIVILEGED AND THE POWERFUL

Genuine humility precludes the idea of samesightedness. There can be no privilege in offering or receiving respect, reverence et al, if this samesightedness is to be there. Witnessing the Brahman within all, there must more or less be equality in the treatment one metes out to any, irrespective of his station in life, so long as one does not thereby patronise wickedness. Preferential treatment, according overmuch of respect to one on the basis of his position in society or organisation and neglecting to show due respect to one of feeble positional background does not betoken genuine spirituality. This unfortunately is the lot of even those who are donning the spiritual attire as they go on the overdrive to being nice and cordial to people of power, prosperity and privilege, and fall woefully short of according like respect to the ones of a humbler station in life. This must not be. The test of spirituality is samesightedness which comes from perception of the One Divine within all. This must not be just articulated from the podium routinely but must be practised with care and eternal vigilance lest there be the slightest slip by way of a show of superiority complex when it comes to dealing with the perceived commoner. 

Written by Sugata Bose