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Swami answers questions from Ms. Geetha Lahari on suppression of ego

1. When a devotee gets compliment for doing God's work, how to take the compliment without getting ego?

[Ms. Geetha Lahari asked: Paadanamaskaram Swami, Swami, when a devotee gets compliment in doing God's work, how to enjoy/ take the compliment without getting ego? Below Your Divine lotus feet, Geetha Lahari.]

Swami replied:- If you think that God has done His work giving the fame to you since you are His devotee, the ego will not come.

2. How to avoid Aatmaninda in the process of suppressing ego?

[Paadanamaskaram Swami, Swami, how to avoid Atmaninda in the process of suppressing ego. At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Geetha Lahari.]

Swami replied:- If you over-criticise your soul beyond a certain limit, it leads to killing the self-confidence. Ego can be suppressed without scolding yourself. It has become a fashion for people to do some good work and scold the self invariably. They think that they prove their lack of ego by such foolish over-action. If you keep a firm idea in your mind that every good work done by you was done by God only and you are given the credit of such good work by God, certainly ego will not enter your mind. By scolding the self, they want to exhibit their process of killing the self-ego to the public to get admiration from the public. It is all external show only and not the internal awareness of ego. Hence, I advise such people not to scold themselves and act before the public. If they simply think about the suggestion given by Me, ego will not enter their minds.

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