Anartha upashamana

 Prick people using tongue, identifying defects

Why do we want to feel superior? The rasa of feeling superior to other co living entities

Mada pumaan - Janma, Aishwarya, sruta, sribhih

janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrībhir
edhamāna-madaḥ pumān
naivārhaty abhidhātuṁ vai
tvām akiñcana-gocaram

My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling.

Superiority over others gives a temporary satisfaction but later creates lot of miseries. This lacks the vision of one entity.....bhajatva ekatvam astitah.....one should do yoga situated in oneness, the one ekatma governing everything. 
Mahaprabhu recommended to feel lower than blade of grass, give respect to all others without expecting any from others. 
Amanina maanadena, trnad api sunicena

Love, cheating, desperation for marriage, for yoga for union
Self doesnt need anything, its called anartha unwanted by sastra
Most of our needs are anartha.....whole economy is driven by anartha

anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād
bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje
lokasyājānato vidvāṁś
cakre sātvata-saṁhitām
The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to himcan be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth.

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