Does it mean chanting the name of God? Or does it mean performing Poojas, going on pilgrimages, and sprinkling Ganga water around the house? All these things aren’t real devotion. “I am fasting, I went on a pilgrimage, I did this, I did that, etc.” There is a lot of “I” in all this. The ego increases even further. I have noticed that the more people fast, the higher is their ego. “I fasted so much; you eat all this? I don’t!” A sense of superiority develops within such people.
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