Narcissism... a deadly disease

Seeing from a spiritual platform, everybody being born in this world is a narcist.

Envy towards the unique position of God, His beauty, His wisdom, His power, and sometimes even His renunciation. Seeing him to be the Supreme Enjoyer and Supreme Controler, the conditioned soul in various ways tries to be learned, invents its own understanding of beauty, exercises power over others, and sometimes even professes as a religious renunciate of something it never had.

But a modest narcist may admit his defeat on the way, overpowered by material energy in the form of three miseries derived from one's own body, the supernatural powers, and from other narcists who will try to prove their pathetic supremacy.

Real narcists will never do so.

Such individuals, male or female, appear often in spiritual institutions, turning the original ideals being preached by the Founder Acharyas into mere rituals, demanding respect and introducing double standards, one set for themselves and one for the public.

Narcism is the privilege of kanistha adhikaris, those who are actually still affected by envy toward God, even professing as His servants.

What are the general symptoms of a classical narcist?

Here are just a few:

• A narcissist never really asks anybody, and if pretending to do so, he instantly tries to demonstrate his pseudo-intellectuality by providing so-called superior alternatives to the answer being given. When one mistakenly engages in discussion with a narcist, one ends up unavoidably due to his envy in a conflict. 
   
• Always monologing, he is incapable of listening to even well-meaning and authorized advice.
   
• When in the leading position, his actions are not facilitating in terms of the purpose given by the mission at hand or encouraging to others, but due to his envy, they are of a supressive nature.
   
• A narcissist always envies another narcist.
   
• A narcissist is using the scriptures, not serving them.
   
• A narcissist will under any cost maintain his distinct position, even by mere accumulation of money and ignorant followers.
   
• A narcissist may appear to the public eye to be altruistic, humanistic, or pseudo-spiritual, but he is always self-centered.
   
• A narcist, even talking about the Varnasrama System given by the Lord, will never understand his guna and varna conditioning due to his self-invented concept of himself. He will always reach for whatever he considers the highest asrama in order to assume a superior position in society.
   
• If not accepted, a devoted narcist gets insulted and retreats, or worse, he will develop schemes to eliminate those he deems to be his enemies.
   
• Recruted from kanistha adhikari circles, a narcist will always claim to be a uttama adhikari, a devotee of the highest caliber. He will demand authority, not command authority.
   
• If proven wrong, a narcist will always blame others for his failing actions or blame his faulty conduct on the circumstances of the given situation.
   
• A narcissist responds only to flattery, not to constructive criticism.
   
• A narcissist is reasoning in an entirely emotional way; even he claims to be rational.
   
• In his eyes, incompetence is a virtue; his inability to accomplish things is a sign of his renunciation.
   
• Despite claiming to be liberal and equiposed paramahamsa, a narcist automatically polarizes his audience into his sympathizers and his “enemies.”
   

Consequently, a narcissist doesn't have a real friend; he collects only temporary allies who reconfirm his falsity and illusory concept of himself. Such fellows assemble then in a sort of backslapping session, praising each other with false humility or truly admiring the superior arogance of the other and the expertise he exhibited by controlling others.

Narcism is infectious. A narcist breeds another narcist as he knows no other way to “teach.”

Unfortunately, narcissism is an uncurable disease. It can be only cured when the infected one himself reaches out for proper cure in the form of proper association and the mercy of a pure devotee. But real narcissists will never do that. Instead of dealing with the problem, he will declare the others to be the problem. A patient accuses then the doctor of being the cause of his disease, rejecting him, and so he dies.