"I was reading in the Facebook, somebody wrote:
‘One of the biggest prisons human-beings suffer is what others think about themselves.’
I tell you, No!
There is a bigger prison – WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOU!
What you think about you is the bigger prison than what others think about you.
What others think about you is able to give you suffering because what you think about you gets altered based on what others think about you.
If what you think about you stays stably, what others think about you will never be a prison for you. Because, what you think about you is so lucid, and lose it, what others think about you becomes a prominent prison.
Be very clear, if what others think about you is a prison in which you are stuck, what you think about you is the cell inside the prison where you are stuck! It is much more suffocating! Much more suffocating!
What others think about you, if you think that is a prison, what you think about you is a cell inside the prison where you are locked!
Please understand, what others think about you impacts only your external life. What you think about you impacts directly your body, your mind."
~Sri Nithyananda Swamiji.