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The Pandit's Pride: Intellectual Ego in Spiritual Life
Bhaja Govindam's Opening Sloka and Kabir's Fierce Critique of Hollow Scholarship
January 31, 2026
•Shikshak Content Board
•8 minute read
Section 6 of 8
The Shared Teaching: Inner Religion vs Outer Knowledge
Shankara and Kabir converge on one point:
True Wisdom Is Not Information
It is transformation.
True Knowledge Is Not Scholarship
It is self-realization.
True Learning Is Not Mastery of Words
It is dissolution of ego.
Shankara's Lens
• Death is coming
• Time devours all
• Worship Govinda now
• Intellectual pride is useless at the end
Kabir's Lens
• Love is the only wisdom
• Ego hides behind scripture
• Ritual and scholarship without inner change are empty
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