How can we get rid of "abhimana?"*
Oh, good heavens! First of all, see how utterly disastrous it is: it is very petty, it is destructive; and then take a step farther and hold yourself up to ridicule, see to what extent you are ludicrous. So, in this way you get rid of it. But so long as you take it seriously, so long as you justify the movement, so long as somewhere in the mind there's the idea: "After all, it is quite natural, I was ill-treated and I suffer from the ill-treatment," then it is finished, it will never go. But if you begin to understand that it is a sign of weakness, of inferiority, naturally, of a very considerable egoism, a narrow-mindedness, and above all of a pettiness of the feelings, a small-heartedness, if you understand that, you can fight it. But your thought should be in agreement. If there is the attitude: "I have been hurt, I am suffering, I am going to show that I am suffering," then it is like that.
* Hurt pride, self-pity because one feels ill-treated.
