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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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