2. God has immense power, but leaving His support, one relies on one's own efforts and endeavors. The reason for this is that one has an excessive sense of self-importance. Others are not even considered, meaning God's power is not taken into account. Only one's own glory pervades their mind. 3. The distress in the hearts of such people has never been removed, and they can never feel a sense of fulfillment within. Even if they have strength and make efforts, they do not feel confident that their salvation will happen or has happened. 4. The reason for this is pride. Otherwise, they might be making many efforts, even more than others. 5. But even then, it doesn't go away for them. They can never feel a sense of fulfillment within, and such a person can never cross the ocean of existence. Such individuals or seekers do not acknowledge God's unfailing power and instead greatly glorify themselves, their efforts, and their actions. 6. Swami says that when King Nahush was roaming in heaven by the power of his spiritual practices and good deeds, Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → 7. They are great, that's why he answered. Arrogant people consider themselves to be very high and consider others to be inferior, even if they are great. Similarly, Nahush gave no answer. Then Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → 8. Then, even indirectly, when he called himself great, he blurted out, "You will not ask about any limits of my merits." Indirectly, Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → 9. If possible, please sing. Then the crow said, "I don't have time right now. I don't have time right now. But since you insist so much, I'll sing a little," and then it cawed. 10. Someone might be able to count how many grains of food there are in the world, perhaps count the dust particles of the earth, the stars in the sky, the leaves in the forest, the hairs on the body. Perhaps someone might count all these things, which are uncountable. But even if someone were to count them, my merits and spiritual practices cannot be counted. As he was still speaking, he fell from heaven to earth. Only God's power is worthy of praise; leaving that, he started praising his own qualities. 11. Self-praise is not worth doing, even if one has lost. The essence of this verse is that self-praise is not worth doing. 12. Yesterday we discussed, "What's wrong with a little self-praise?" If a divine soul, a good person, hears a few words of praise, it inspires them. But one should not expect that from everyone. 13. Arrogant people expect it from everyone; everyone should say this to me, good and bad. Divine souls might be confused about whether the path they are on is correct or not. 14. So, if a couple of good people validate them, they gain confidence, which is necessary. But praise is like an unhealthy diet. An unhealthy diet means it causes illness. 15. If someone has a cold and drinks buttermilk, it worsens. It worsens, meaning it gets out of control. Similarly, what is the unhealthy diet for pride? Praise. 16. Pride is a disease. In the Ramayana, it's a human, but it's a joint disease. If you bandage one joint, it hurts another, and if you bandage that, it hurts a third. He calls it arthritis, meaning there are many joints involved. 17. If you do it in one place, it affects another. Similarly, whether you call an arrogant person or not, there's a problem. If you call them, they say, "He said this to me." If you don't call them, they say, "Why didn't he call me?" So, praise is its unhealthy diet. It's a means to worsen the disease. How does pride worsen? 18. It worsens when praised. It's okay to praise, but it worsens when one hears it. One has a great desire to hear oneself, so it worsens. Even if one hears it by mistake, it worsens. 19. If you have a cold and accidentally eat buttermilk or yogurt, you might say, "It was by mistake, forgive the cold." It doesn't work that way; it worsens. Similarly, even by mistake, praise worsens pride. That's why the scriptures must have forbidden it. King Nahush thought, "Let me do a little introduction." 20. There's no one else, Maharaj, no ministers, so he had to do it himself. If there were others, it would be better if others did it. King Nahush must have had pride in his merits from the beginning, right? Otherwise, how would it come in a moment? So, if it came in a second, then why did he fall only when Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → 21. Someone needs to be honored, then he opens his mouth. You don't just go into the wilderness and speak. People gather somewhere, and when a full assembly is there, then an introduction is to be made. Now, if two or four people are sitting in front, meaninglessly, then when a chief guest is about to arrive, we have to do the introduction, right? It's proper when everyone listens, and then the introduction happens. So, King Nahush was wandering alone. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details