The Real Glory

It is often believed that glory and dispassion are contradictory and cannot
co-exist. Glory and luxury without dispassion is a nauseating pomp and
show. Such glory does not bring fulfillment for anyone, it is shallow.
Alternately, the dispassion that is afraid of glory is weak. True
dispassion is oblivious to glory.

The glory that comes with dispassion is something that is true, that is
permanent and authentic. When someone runs after glory they are shallow.
Like movie stars, politicians and religious leaders who try to hold on to
their status, to their glory, they are certain to lose. If you run after
glory all you get is misery. When you are dispassionate, glory comes to you.

If you are afraid of glory, that means you are not well-founded in
dispassion. In India, the Sadhus run away from glory. They think they will
lose their dispassion and get trapped in the web of the world, the circus.
The dispassion is so blissful, they get attached to the dispassion.

They are afraid of losing the dispassion, the centeredness and bliss that
comes along with it. This is weak dispassion. Dispassion is a state of
being and glory is the happening around it. True dispassion can never be
lost or overshadowed by glory. True dispassion is glorious! Real glory is
true dispassion!

|| Jai Guru Dev ||