Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati about those who Criticize Others!

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, The Guru of Srila Prabhupada, speaks about those who have no business other than criticising others!

From an English Lecture given on 7 Dec 1936 in Calcutta (Kolkotta):

“This wicked mind, which is never to be trusted, should be broomsticked every morning with such warnings like this:

"Be not (Don’t be) anxious to find fault with others, or to declare thyself (yourself) a true sincere, bonafide bhakta, which certainly art not!" 

"para-carccakera gati nahi kona kale - A man who is habituated to criticize others conduct, will never prosper!" 

Let others do whatever they like, I have no concern for them. 

I should rather find fault with my own damned mind!  

I think like the Vaishnava Mahajana [His father Thakur Bhaktivinode from Saranagati] who sings:

Amara jibana,   sadä pape rata
nahiko punyera lesa
para-sukhe duhkhi, sada mithya-bhasi
para-duhkha sukha-karo

"Ever engaged in vicious activity... and without the slightest trace of virtue in me. A liar as I am, always sorry at others pleasures and merry at other's sorrows, troubles and cares.”

We should always remember this song and engage our mind ceaselessly in hari-bhajan. 

We should not run about attacking others with dissuading policy! Such conduct behooves only deceitful persons and not preachers!”

Let us follow the message of the master of the master!

Thus, Though others do ill for us, we must forgive them! Because, forgiving is Krishna’s Character! And, if we forgive others, Krishna will take charge of educating them!