FALSE PRESTIGE : False prestige is the result of maintenance of ahankara. False prestige means — I want to be recognized, I want to be worshiped, I want to be known as the best man in the town, I want to be known as the best devotee, I want to be known as the most surrendered devotee etc. There are varieties of desires or activities that can fall in the category of false prestige. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised us to be more humble. To be humble means to be devoid of feelings of false prestige. False prestige has to be renounced; we have to give up the desire of the false prestige. This desire of false prestige manifests itself in two ways — one is gross and other is subtle. One is that I want open recognition that I am the best devotee; I have done so much service etc and that is the gross manifestation. Then there is subtle manifestation. I may not be saying it openly but in my heart I want everybody to know that no one is more sincere than me; no one is more dutiful than me etc. We have to endeavor to take out or eliminate this desire for false prestige both internally and externally. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that one should be devoid of all sense of false prestige, this is what He means...(His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj)...Hare Krishna
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:00:27 +0000
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