What is the stage between self-pity and ego?
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what do you call the stage which is between self-pity and ego okay it is not that automatically if i have neither self-pity nor ego i’ll automatically have humility it is not necessary like that but basically we all we all go through different degrees in this if the mind if the consciousness like a pendulum sometimes it goes towards the direction of how good i am how great i am how clever i am and sometimes it goes to how foolish i am how stupid i am how this i am it all it goes to different directions so this is just the way it actually works that way it’s not it’s not necessarily wrong in the sense that it’s not something which can be absolutely avoided you know if you do something good naturally we may feel that okay i have done something good i’m good if you do something bad you may feel that i’m bad there’s a feeling which will come so again what will keep us focused is our fixity of purpose if we are focused on our purpose of serving krishna then sometimes i may feel also i’m so good but then i’ll start noticing that if i’m too caught in my own self-glorification then i’m not able to serve krishna that if that purposefulness will help us to come to the balance from whichever direction we might go in the extreme so there’s a that purposeful state of wanting to serve krishna that is humility so we could say this the balanced state between self-pity and ego we could say it is humility but primarily that is not cultivated by simply avoiding this and avoiding that that is cultivated primarily by focusing on krishna and trying to serve krishna so there is a car blocking the gate there is number 9765 SUV so those who are car it is can you please remove that what is the starting point for bhakti yoga there are four starting points