Why do You say that You want to give fame to Your devotees, when it leads to ego?

[An online spiritual discussion was conducted on April 03, 2021, in which several devotees participated. Some of the questions of devotees answered by Swāmi are given below.]

[Śrī Bharath Krishna asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmiji! You always say that getting fame in this world is very dangerous because it leads to ego. But elsewhere in Your discourses, You have also mentioned that You want to give fame to Your devotees. I am confused with these two statements of Yours. Could You kindly clarify?]

Swāmi replied: Giving fame develops pleasure in the heart of God Datta just like giving the sweets prepared by mother to her children gives her immense happiness. If the sweets bring the problem of diabetes, the mother is also the doctor giving sugar tablets to activate pancreas to nullify the sugar. Pancreas is the intelligence and sugar is ego. The mother expects her children to eat the given sweets and to do physical exercise so that the problem of sugar does not arise. Physical exercise means service in God’s work. As the child, you cannot understand this and you will understand this perfectly in the next birth when you will be born as the mother. I will meet you in the next birth and ask you “Have you understood the point now?”

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