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confined to him being a graduate. He considers it important for him and so you should not violate that. You should not violate someone's pride within limits swamaan.
And what is maan? In maan one is not concerned whether he has a degree or any specific qualification. Infact, forget about the qualification, but it is 'ego with rich materials'. He wears a long coat (fancy clothes), a three-thousand dollar watch, gold frame glasses, that is maan!
one's ego
Questioner: What is the difference between hurt to ahamkar and hurt to one's swamaan?
Dadashri: A lot! The one whose swamaan limited pride is hurt will bind revenge veyr.
Questioner: So one would not avenge the ego ahamkar getting hurt?
Dadashri: No, nothing. There is no problem with the ego. But the wealthy do not have an ego, only the poor have an ego. If a person remains unaffected when you say to him, 'Come along you useless person!', it is so because there is only the ego ahamkar. Still it is not always like that. It may or may not affect his ego but the wealthy people do not have just the ego alone.
Questioner: Then what do the wealthy people have?
Dadashri: They have pride maan, abhimaan, swamaan; they have all kinds of different things. They have everything else along with the ego. And the poor do not have any thing, they have the ego only.
Questioner: If a person has doen some good work and takes abhimaan for it, and excercises his abhimaan to make another person look bad; so what then?
Dadashri: That is not considered abhimaan.
Questioner: So then what is the difference between the two?
Dadashri: Maan and abhimaan both are with rich material.
