How are humility and honesty different – why are they needed in spirituality?

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Thank you. …fearlessly going towards death… …humility means… So, in the context of relationships, when I said humility means to acknowledge the complex…I don’t know… …try to observe, try to learn more… Prabhupada himself was a pure devotee of Mahabhaga but when he was going to America, what was he saying? Krishna, you please make my words understandable to them. That means he’s saying essentially that I don’t know how I’ll communicate to them.
But you are in their heart. You are in my heart. So, please give me the words by which I can speak, by which you in their heart will understand.
They won’t understand. So, to the extent we feel a need for Krishna, I would say honesty is related. Honesty basically means in this context, acknowledging the finiteness of our capacities.
Finiteness of our capacities. Whatever it may be. I have a lot of money.
Today I may be brilliant but tomorrow what if I get Alzheimer’s and I forget everything including that I am brilliant. So many things can go wrong in life. So, honesty means my capacities are there but they are finite and they are temporary.
They’ll be there, they’ll move on. So then, when we acknowledge the finiteness and the temporariness of our capacities, then that brings humility. I need Krishna.
Even if I feel that I don’t need Krishna right now, and then we can move towards Krishna. So, without humility, without honesty, spirituality often becomes a social cosmetic. It’s something which we put on to look good in front of the world.
I am also spiritual. But actually we don’t feel a need for Krishna. We don’t go closer to Krishna.
We just are situated in our own comfort zone. So, with humility and honesty then our spirituality becomes a drive that takes us closer to Krishna and that transforms our heart from its love for worldly things to love.