Fault finders

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> 7. What kind of people find fault with Vaisnavas?

>

> Only those averse to Lord Hari and whose only assets are their defective

> material senses find fault with Vaisnavas. In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna

> states that His devotees never perish. Can those who worship the Lord

> without deviation ever fall down? They certainly achieve perfection. Since

> our vision is polluted we find fault with others and thereby ruin

> ourselves. When we thus become materialists we become bereft of service to

> guru and Krsna. We think of the trouble of others because we ourselves are

> in trouble. Because we are full of faults we find fault with others. If we

> can correct ourselves, we will find that we have no time to find fault

> with others.

>

> (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Amrta Vani)

 

Thank you for sending this nice quote. It is always wise, however, when

sending quotes like this, to apply them in our own lives first before using

them to describe others. Like the Bible says, "Better to take the log out of

your own eye first before trying to remove the speck from another's."

 

I think you need to understand the difference between fault-finding and

calling a spade a spade. It is not fault-finding to be loyal to Srila

Prabhupada's version and wanting to protect it against deviation.

 

Here is another nice quote from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur:

 

Not to destroy the peace of anybody, not to cause annoyance to anybody over

any matter, to patch up a compromise, or seeming absence of opposition

between the weak points of individuals or aggregates, is the denotation of

the term "concord" in the current usage of the age. The fear of ourselves

being attacked by those whose weaknesses we are to point out recommends to

our prudence the adoption of this convenient principle of "I am silent if

you are also dumb." The so-called concord of the age is only another name

for: drifting according to one's individual tastes with the current of laws

concocted by the mind, and to not in any way oppose the similar efforts of

others.

 

The Special Characteristic of the Acharya

A tribute to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, by Prof. Nishi Kanta

Sanyal, from the Harmonist, March 1928

 

PS. Concord means 'agreement or harmony of interests or feelings.'