Trnad api… how to develop such qualities

trnad api sunicena
taror api sahisnuna
amanina manadena
[Cc. Adi 17.31]
For personal self he is denying all kinds of respectful obeisances, but to
others he will give all respectful obeisances. Amanina manadena kirtaniyah.
Such mentality.
Now how it is possible to become like that? That is not possible to learn
artificially, that “I am trying to become more humbler or, I mean to say,
tolerant than the tree.” No. It should be by scientific understanding of my
constitutional position. What is my constitutional position? This gigantic
body, I am not this body. I am not this body. What I am? I am spirit soul.
And what is the measurement of the spirit soul? The measurement of a spirit
soul is one ten-thousandth part of the top portion of your hair, tip of the
hair. So actually I am smaller than the grass. I am smaller than the grass.
Artificially I may have the body of an elephant, but I am not this body. My
position is I am atomic spirit soul. So if we understand…. In other words,
if I am convinced, these things automatically develop in you. Trnad api
sunicena taror api…Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches that you become humbler
than the grass, tolerant than the tree — not artificially but by pure
understanding of your constitutional position.
Srila Prabhupada’s lecture, November 8, 1968