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Chapter 32
Regard for Virtues
The trait of finding faults of others has been prevailing in our society. The reason is simple; it is always easy to go down, while effort has to be made in order to go up. Finding fault is also easy, while it is hard to develop regard for virtues. We should question ourselves, 'since we do not store the garbage in the house and dump it in garbage box, why do we need to hold the drawbacks of others on our shoulder?' People, however, tend to take interest in the talks of such drawbacks and go to places where such talks take place.
The wise men therefore advise us to develop regard for virtuous people. It is of course difficult to come across such people in the present vicious atmosphere. As every home does not have a garden, so is it futile to expect everyone to be virtuous. Criticizing or censoring anyone can lead to washing off his faults. A washerman cleans the clothes on payment, but we happen to remove others' drawbacks free of charge. It is therefore said, 'Nindä na karajo päraki, na raheväy to karajo äpaki (Do not criticize others; if you cannot do without it, criticize yourself). If we keep this in mind, nothing but good words would turn out of our mouth.
Words have great impact. Our eyes get reddened on hearing one word of anger, while a smile arises on our face when we hear a word of affection. That is comparable to the musical tone turning out of a
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