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Boastfulness
Our ego, boasting of freedom, is at every moment the slave, toy and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, influences in universal Nature.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 20-21. - The Synthesis of Yoga
Boast not thy riches, neither seek men's praise for thy poverty and self-denial; both these things are the coarse or the fine food of egoism.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 17. - The Hour of God
Do not boast, do not boast about anything. Let your acts speak for themselves.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 6. - Questions And Answers (1954)
Never boast. By boasting you dissipate your capacity for realisation.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
How many times, you know, when someone boasts... it may be very childishly... but when someone boasts about something: "Oh, I am sure of that, I shall never make that mistake", immediately I see a hostile formation passing there, like that, and it enters by the little hole made by the boasting. It enters within, like that, and then penetrates, and so prepares everything for you to do exactly what you didn't want to. But this is an amusement, it is certainly not to help you to progress. But if you know how to take it, it does help you to progress. You say, "Good, another time I won't boast."
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 7. - Questions And Answers (1955)
Those who accomplish the work are not in the habit of boasting. They keep their energy for the task and leave the glory of the results to the Eternal Lord.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 16. - More answers from the Mother
It is there that men have built their little artificial cities of metaphysical thought and spiritual practice, in each of which the inhabitants pretend to control the whole river. They call their dwelling places Vedanta or Sankhya, Adwaita or Dwaita, Shaivism or Vaishnavism, with a hundred names beside and boast that theirs is the way and theirs is the knowledge. But, in reality, each of us can only command a little of the truth of the Sanatana Dharma, because none of us understands more than a little of the Upanishads.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Isha Upanishad
Then all the so-called powers of which we boast today will seem like childish games before the radiance of this almighty embodied spirit.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 12. - 1971