By Sacinandana Swami
The moment you are proud, you lose your vision. Humility grants perception of reality. In the words of the Bhagavatam, "the earth appears spinning due to one's spinning his eyes around" - that happens due to pride. Pride comes from a form of lust. Krsna is time and He desires to destroy all the obstacles for devotees. Especially pride. Once I told you a story about a king asking a minister, "What is God's daily work?" ... Then priests were asked.... Finally a shepherd, seeing a fleeing, asked the priest about the question... "Let me give the answer". Before answering the kings question, the shepherd said, "First I have to correct the incongruity, you are sitting on the throne and asking me a question as a teacher, so we need to change seats". Boiling king did, and the shepherd said, "That is the constant work of God, being done right now: He puts the proud people down, and humble people up".