20 Jul 2025
[Smt. Anita asked: Swamiji Paada Namaskaram 🙏 Guru Datta Sri Datta Prabhu Datta 🙇♀️ Swamiji, Self-praise brings sin as well as ego. Your another statement says “Self-praise is inevitable when you are alone”. Do clarify and remove my ignorance. At Your Divine Lotus Feet🙇♀️ Anita]
Swami replied:- When you are alone and you are subjected to depression due to the lowering of basic ego, there is no friend to praise you and increase your self-confidence in such situation. In such case of loneliness, you have to praise yourself. Hanuman praised Himself in Lanka to raise His self-confidence before destroying the demons and burning Lanka. You should not isolate a bit of My statement since it does not carry any meaning in that specific context.
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