No Pride Allowed | Muhammad Ali on the Hereafter
4/28/202658 min
"If you've got one ounce of pride, you can't enter the hereafter." From the man who called himself the greatest, that statement lands differently. Ali understood something that took a lifetime to learn — that the gifts we're given are on loan, not owned. The strength, the beauty, the wit, the fame. None of it is ours. And the moment we claim it as ours, we cut ourselves off from the very source it came from. Raghunath and Kaustubha explore that teaching alongside one of the most tender moments in the Srimad Bhagavatam — where Krishna tells Indra directly: I stopped your...
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First 90 secondsKaustubha Das· Host0:00
I really have a place in my heart for Muhammad Ali. He, he's, he's, um, he spoke a lot of wisdom, you know?
Raghunath· Host0:06
Yeah.
Kaustubha Das· Host0:06
If, if you r- if you really go... And, and he stood up, uh, in a time where it was very difficult, uh, and spoke his truth. And his truth was very, uh, deeply spiritual. He's a very deeply spiritual- For sure ... man. Uh, y- people throw that around, but he really was. And I think it matured in him o- over the years, of course, too, as, as hopefully it does in people. But, you know, he... What, what... Part of what I appreciate in this, and that really to me indicates his sincerity and the, and the depth of his, of his, um, of his spirituality, is that he says, "If you've got one ounce of pride, you can't enter the hereafter." Now, a lot of times the, you know, people coming from the Abrahamic faiths- Yeah ... they equate... The, the goal is to get to the hereafter, right? The, the, the goal is to get to heaven. The, the, the goal is salvation. Now, oftentime the East... A- and I'm not... I don't wanna overstate- What does that mean, salvation? Salvation means freedom from sin and, like, it, like, almost like what we call moksha. They w- you know, it, attaining heaven. You know, the idea is that our sin is keeping us bound and, and, and damning us to, to a future of misery. Salvation means freedom from that fate.
Raghunath· Host1:27
Right.
Kaustubha Das· Host1:28
A- and release, you