Pride and Humility - Divinity in Action

MARDI GRAS 2008

INTUITIVE HEART OFFERING

March 2026

Pride and Humility – Divinity in Action

The lunar new year brings more clarity and recognition this is a time like no other, there is a great shift in consciousness unfolding. We feel the turning of ages, a crumbling of old structures that have shaped human identity for centuries. Whether one names it the movement from Piscean to Aquarius or simply the collapse of an old-world order, the tension is undeniable. Humanity as a collective feels the pressure to reveal both its shadow and light. The shadow of ego pride is being burned out, moving us onwards towards humility, toward the light.

Last month gave you an experience through the Negative Mind of suffering through separateness. Duality fuels the fears of difference and yet shows the souls continual longing to return to One. This 3rd month of March is connected to 3rd body / Positive Mind, Fire / Agni, Kar / Form, Guru Amar Das, the 3rd Sikh Guru of Equality. Add the month number with the year, 3+2026=13=4, and you also get the door to the heart opening, inviting you to find a compassionate way through the small ego disguised as pride. The Positive Mind is the expression of accepting life in this physical body, and its connection and interaction with the world. It’s a chance to seek the thread which intertwines the God without to the God within through Kar/ form.

The number 3 with 3 points, 3 lines creates the first shape - the triangle. This form brings a sense of stability, can provide safety yet when these beliefs harden, they fix the identity, and the exact same structure becomes your prison. To move forward who you think you are must die to be transformed.

The Positive Mind can magnify the positive and negative. When out of balance it uses the Agni to highlight past moments as failures convincing you that a new way is insurmountable. This often takes the form of pride. Pride is the egos last attempt to keep you stuck in the familiar patterns, trapped in the toughened ways of doing life. There are three paths of pride; I think I am superior to other, I think I am inferior to other, and I think I am just as good as the other. These feelings of specialness or superiority inflate the ego, feeds it with pride and your deeds become dishonourable.

“Your deeds should be honourable as you want to be received by God. And your deeds cannot be honourable unless you have honourable intentions. If you want to kill someone first, you must kill your own feelings. If you want to take from someone, first you must take away your own pride”. Yogi Bhajan.

Hubristic pride makes the personality artificial and hypocritical; life becomes very complicated. The lack of self-value is usually compensated by the illusions of self-importance. What I can’t accept about myself becomes a war within, it hardens the heart and eventually this war is projected outwards onto other. In our culture, pride is mistaken for confidence, and rewards self-promotion. Pride is not strength, it is separation. It shouts, “I did this.” Authentic pride based on self – worth whispers with devotion, “It was done through me.” True pride walks tall with dignity, acts with compassion and humility.

The best antidote to pride is humility. Guru Amar Das, was a profound proponent of humility (nimrata), embodying it through selfless service. He taught that ego is the primary barrier to spiritual liberation, true greatness is achieved by becoming "lowly" a surrendering to the Divine Will (hukum). Hukum is the ultimate path to peace and the quietening of pride. He wrote the Anand Sahib (Song of Bliss), merging with the Creator by accepting life’s events exactly as they are, without question allows humility then every action reflects the soul. This is the joy of right action – Divinity in Action.

Right action feels like a true act. A true act can be felt as an embodied knowing – it feels right on in the body. In somatic therapy it’s often followed by a yawn or sigh of relief, a sign that the hardened structure is adjusting, stagnant stubborn energy is moving. You are reminded living in alignment with the One, joy occurs. We no longer seek the thread; we become the message, and it weaves through everything we do.

Through the 3rd dimension the body and its functions understand their true purpose, the heart becomes the bridge between the lower energetic triangle and upper triangle transforming our fear-based reactions into the higher frequency realm of Ether/ Akasha, every action becomes an expression of truthful divine order. Realising this we transcend worldly pleasures and pain.

This month creates a space for you to cultivate authentic pride and establish self-worth through the fire element. When we have a strong sense of self, we see all as equal, we feel every situation as fair, our desires to judge, doubt and inflict suffering disappear. The real test of course, is to first do this for ourselves. When we love our devil, as much as our divine, we live and serve even our worst enemies with compassion. We see every human is doing to best they can, they’re managing their karmic incarnation the only way they know how. We trust everyone is doing the best to further their own awakening. The best pride is to pray for everyone. Not pride in achievement. Not pride in identity. But dignity rooted in grace.

Last weekend Sydney hosted its annual Mardi Gras where thousands of people marched, lined the streets, or watched the parade online. As a Sapphic/ Lesbian woman who was outed as a teenager in the 80’s I found solace, connection, and community at Mardi Gras time for many years. Back then I wasn’t organising Kundalini festivals, I was sharing my creativity and organising skills building floats that expressed my struggle to accept myself and be acknowledged by others. Everyone was invited to dress up, glitter up, step up for diversity and difference. It was a celebratory protest against division and separateness, a fight for equality, a march to embody and express authentic pride.

Reflecting on that time, I see this was mostly an unconscious action by my limited mind seeking that thread back to equilibrium and peace. It was my soul’s journey back to Oneness, longing to return home. If the body is the vehicle of the soul, the form in which this transformational work occurs, then by marching covered in glitter I was somehow moving toward right joyful action. We don’t burn up false pride to diminish oneself, instead the fire is there to incinerate our attachments to uncover our authenticity.

Yogi Bhajan’s said “keep up and you’ll be kept up”. Great motto for the 3rd dimension. If each day you can keep up with what is being asked of you, what’s before you, then you’ll be taken care of. We can’t wait to know it all first, we can’t let the fear of hurting others stop us, we simply must trust through humility. Standing for who we are as individuals with humility, we humble ourselves before the Infinite and strengthen pride. We understand that effectiveness and right action cannot flourish where ego dominates. We cannot serve and simultaneously seek superiority. Now that’s something to be proud of.

Here in the nectar of truth humility transforms pride, and all prejudices dissolve. When we embody this experience, bliss naturally happens.  Bliss is that state where YOU are YOU no matter what pressure you are under, what sacrificial fire you must go through. When you deliver your Self, your Truth, your Destiny, in the face of every challenge and obstacle, you are Divinity in Action.

 love, light, laughter

devpreet