Fault finding.

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Krishnadaya's posting of the speech of Paramacharya is laudable for the same brings out a lot of things that are worthy of emulation.Why we find fault with a person,not because we are infallible.But to make the other person realize the way he is conducting his affairs.If for example a person used to take drinks and one tries to advise him to leave that habit will that person take the same in good sense or his ego will get bloated and takes to more drinks?It makes no difference if one person or a group of persons advise and the same is left to the person who takes advise of others in right earnestness.It is not to expect that the person has no right to advise other what he thinks is for the good of the drinking person.Will that be a case of fault finding?For giving such advise shuld one also be a drinking person?Or shuld that person be flattered to drink more?This is only an example.So in order to save the other person from leaving that

habit a person advises him like that.In what way that amounts to fault finding? Will he be ok if said privately or even publicly and both will hv no effect unless that particular person himself understands.I don't know in which context Paramacharya said those sayings.But to be practical there is nothing wrong in advising a person to desist from that bad habit and for that the adviser need not be a drinking person and in such a case the same has no sanctity.So such argument in my opinion carries no weight. So too flattery is often in tune with truthfulness and very pleasant to hear.May a real sadhak employ it in his dealings with people?No, flattery has to be scruplously avoided.Harsh words hv not done so much harm to society as undue compliments hv done.Even great men hv falllen victims to flattery and gone off their moorings.The words uttered ought to be pleasant agreed and shuld be beneficial but

never pandering to one's vanity.Beneficial words from a benediction and they alone ought to be spoken always.As Krishnadaya quoted in the last para that stanza can come to the rescue of any fault finder in others case. There are any number of cases we can quote that harsh words are used even by the parents against their children for the mistakes committed by them and can all they be considered to be fault finding?Just because of that will the relationship of the children and the parents go in disarray?Acharya has made a quote and consoled that he is not at fault when he said that you are at fault.Will that be a sufficient example? I hv not questioned the sayings of the Paramacharya but in what context he quoted also shuld be considered.If what he said is to be believed why quote a sloka and said that he is not at fault as the quoted stanza is in his favour? I am not questioning the Great Acharya but the way in

which such things had been said ,it is difficult to digest unless the context in which he narrated also shuld also be ascertained.Anyways it is a thought provoking posting with lot of doubts that also shuld hv been explained and in what context a think shuld be treated as fault finding and in what circumstances the same need not be taken as fault finding.This only widens the questions. agraman.

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