46.

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My Lord,

I know world-criticism is bad.

How can self-criticism also be bad?

"My child,

Both are unmistakably

And equally bad.

Your world-criticism

Lengthens the pride

Of your stupidity-flooded mind.

Your self-criticism

Indefinitely delays

My divine manifestation

In and through you." ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My Lord's Lotus-Feet versus my devotion-heart, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
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