People interpret it otherwise; self-denial means, they say, to deny to oneself all the happiness and pleasures of this earth. If it was to deny the happiness and pleasure of this earth", then why this earth was made? Only to deny? If it was made to deny it was very cruel. For the continuing seeking of man is for happiness. Self-denial is to deny that little personality which creeps up with everything, to efface this false ego which prompts one to feel his little power in this thing or that thing.