“One should not be falsely proud. Everyone… Material world means everyone is falsely proud. Everyone is thinking, āḍhyo ‘smi dhanavān asmi ko ‘sti mama samaḥ. Everyone. This is the disease. ‘I am the richest’, ‘I am the powerful’, ‘I am the very intelligent’. Everything, ‘I am’. This is called ahaṅkāra. Ahaṅkāra vimudhātmā kartāham iti manyate (BG 3.27). This false prestige, when one is absorbed with false things, he becomes vimūḍha, rascal. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate. This is false prestige. We have to give up this false prestige.”
