“Arjuna! Your śraddhā gives Me great joy; listen. The first is what is called ‘amānitva’, that is, being without self-regard. As long as there is pride, Jñāna does not arise. Man's vṛttis should be like water: whatever colour you add to water, the water turns that colour and becomes one with it. Water has no self-regard at all. Man's conduct is the very opposite of this. If he does some small kindness, some trifling act of charity, ten people must hear of it. If there is no way for them to hear of it, he goes about telling it himself, or has it printed in some newspaper. To be without such self-regard is amānitva.”