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  • We are not the judge of all we survey

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    Author: Srimati Bhakti Lalita Devi Dasi Cycle: Beauty Over Power
    Duration: 00:05:14 Date: 2016-05-16 Size: 14.08Mb Place: Gupta Govardhan Chiang Mai Downloaded: 2528 Played: 5050

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    Question:  Can we say in this way that it's better for us not to judge anyone? Bhakti Lalita:
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    Yes, has we're not the judge's of all we survey. We're just humble,tiny, little, finite souls. And we're not so powerful to go around judging everyone and everything.
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    And we're also imperfect. So, until we're perfect we cannot be anybody's judge. First become perfect, become liberated from this material world manifestation. Then maybe than some utility and judging. Something called constructive criticims. But, we're not generally fit for that easer.
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    So, Srila Sridhar Maharaj would say:" oil your own machine".Put your all your attentioning to finding your own...and critisasing yourself. And not it any like psychological demeaning way or not having issues with self - esteem
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    But this is a spiritual tendency to be humble, to be self - deprecating, to be realistic, undestanding or small position are imperfections and focused on finding our own faults. Our Guru is would say- we are not drain inspectors, it's not our job to inspect the drains.
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    Any spot on the character of others. Question:  Once, i heard from the Avadhut maharaj class and the essentans make me alive all the time,... situations he told- when you recognise and begin to judge someone, you're in the way deep degradation, way of degradation, can you call this?  Bhakti Lalita:
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    .8 Yes, because specially, if where judging, where thinking ill of vaisnavas and devotees, that's detrimental for our spiritual lives. That's in a category of vaisnav ninda, vaisnav aparadha, offence.
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    So, that's the worst thing we can do for our spiritual lives. As, to cause offense to devotee, specially higher devotees and  we will soon suffer for our judgments and criticism. So, we're careful and dealing with the vaisnavas and observing to behavior and never judging, never critisizing.
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    The beautiful verse by Srila Rupa Goswami about the Ganga, Ganga's river. You might find bubbles and foam, looking very impure, but really Ganga is pure. And it's only appearing to be impure.
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    And so sometimes, like that in the character about vaisnavas. You might see some imperfection, but it's only like that. Same is like the Ganga, you see bubbles and foam.
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    It's external, it's not their real self and we don't be fooled by any external defect.
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    Or not looking at that or looking for the spiritual nature's and appreciating then in yourselves, not judging out ourself.