46.
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."
Sri Chinmoy, My Lord's Lotus-Feet versus my devotion-heart, part 2, Agni Press, 1998