Without devotional service, without being Kṛṣṇa conscious, one is surely to become falsely puffed up. Why he says? "Because he has got his bodily concept of life."
Śrīdhara Mahārāja clearly says that bhakti hinasya ete gunah. Ete gunah, all these material qualification, highly educated, and śama, dama, titikṣa, practice how to control the mind, senses—everything is complete. So ete gunah, when one becomes such qualified, he becomes proud. That is the material status of life.
Pride is a material . . . pride means if one is too much proud of his acquisition, either educational or material wealth, that means he is in the material platform. This very test. A devotee is never proud. He is humble, humble and meek. Just Lord Jesus Christ also said: "The humble and meek will attain the kingdom of God." Is it not?
So Vaiṣṇava is humble and meek. He is not proud, because . . .
(break) . . . even if he has got great amount of wealth, good qualification, everything, he thinks that, "These things are Kṛṣṇa's. I am His servant. I have got the opportunity to serve Him with this qualification. If I am highly educated, if I have got good knowledge, if I am great philosopher, scientist—everything—if I do not engage all these qualifications to Kṛṣṇa's service, then I shall naturally become falsely proud