When we find that our enthusiasm is overriding our manners, that is when our enthusiasm is becoming over-enthusiasm. We all are enthusiastic about certain things; and our enthusiasm may be based on deep interests or deep concerns about certain issues. And when we try to persuade others who don’t share our enthusiasm, at such times, if we become ill-mannered towards those people because they don’t appreciate the things we are enthusiastic about, that is when we can know: this is a red sign indicating that we are becoming over-enthusiastic.

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18.26 One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great determination and enthusiasm, and without wavering in success or failure is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness.