How do we get rid of the propensity to want to prove our greatness to the world?

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how do we get rid of the propensity to try to do our dreams by seeking joy in God’s dreams that means if we learn to practice fasting just like a simple example a father may achieve something but if the child achieves more in the father father is proud of it when we love someone we delight in our beloved’s dreams similarly when we can devote it to God when we start practicing Krishna Mantra then in this joy in this glory we get the needed happiness and we find that that happiness is so fulfilling that we are no longer obsessed with proving our own greatness when I say we should try to prove our greatness that doesn’t mean that we have to not try to do great things or that we let others trample us down it simply means that our driving focus is not self-centered and actually that is very liberating when we are self-centered our conception is always limited we cannot think beyond me and my greatness but if we can think of God then we become less self-conscious some of you have given a public speech for the first time quite often we are self-conscious we have to worry how I look how my hands move, how my legs move and when we are too self-conscious then we are no longer speech-conscious and then although we may have a capacity to speak well we are not able to speak because we are too self-conscious but once we get rid of that self-consciousness then we can speak naturally so like that when we are too caught up in trying to prove our own greatness then we are always uncertain whether I succeed or not and it means we are not instinctive so our focus is to turn towards God and try to do whatever we can for his glorification and when we get some glory we say actually God has given me some talents and that is what I have used so it is his grace we pass the credit to God, we connect with God then we should not think of not seeking our greatness or not trying to prove our greatness as a deprivation if we think of it that way then we will never want to do it but when we actually connect with God we get some yet higher compliment and when we get the satisfaction of tasting the sweetness of bhakti then we won’t crave for trying to do our own greatness it will not be deprivation but that itself will be a distraction by freeing ourselves from it we will be able to focus onward more in our life how much time do we have?