Ashwini Datta was a famous orator in Barisal, but while speaking he would move his hands and head in an effort to convince the audience. Someone observed that Saradananda spoke without moving his hands and asked about it. The swami replied: “To move one’s hands and use facial gestures are great arts of oratory, and most speakers use those tools to make their lectures impressive. But Swamiji did not like it. He said: ‘During a lecture one should remove one’s ego and stand in front of the Master humbly and calmly. He will make you speak whatever he wants, and he himself will listen to it. Thus when one speaks surrendering fully, then only that lecture carries the message of God.’” Then Saradananda told the devotees that previously he had had that bad habit, but Swamiji had corrected him in London.