Guru Ravidass taught that a pure heart outweighs pilgrimage and ritual, a humility his own verses within the Guru Granth Sahib still carry.
The Asadisa Jataka
The Archer Behind the Giant
The Gamani Jataka
The Humble Prince and the Power of Virtue
A Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava song asking who is a true Vaishnava, ending in humble surrender at Krishna's feet.
This is a short devotional couplet from the saint-poet Kabir, teaching that gentle, ego-free speech brings peace to others and to oneself.
A popular couplet attributed to Kabir: seeking the bad in others he found none, but searching his own heart he found no one worse than himself.
Sant Tukaram prays for smallness: the ant tastes sugar while the great elephant bears the goad, so humility is the happier gift.
A Basavanna vachana: the devotee's body and speech become living scripture, yet even that is less than the dust from the feet of fellow devotees (sharanas).
In this vachana Basavanna asks to be counted among Lord Kudalasangamadeva's own household, in humility rather than as a stranger.