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THE WAY OF LIFE
card one ignoble habit and that is, people should discard their evil habit of condemning and calumniating noble people. Never deride men of nobility and culture. Glorify men of nobility and culture. But now-a-days, only noble and cultured people are being subjected to greater condemnation and calumniation. People who never condemn others and who never engage themselves in criticizing others are themselves condemned and calumniated. Those who are noble and cultured never condemn others. One distinguishing virtue of noble and cultured people is that they do not condemn others.
"What an excellent man he is! He never condemns or criticises others”. Do you at anytime praise anyone thus ? No, because this truth that condemning others is a great sin is not firmly implanted in your heart. Some find delight in condemning and speaking ill of others. It tastes sweet to them. Those who like the sweetness of calumniating others find it extremely difficult to discard that habit. "It is a sin to condemn others”. They do not like this principle. They like the company of those people who condemn and calumniate others. They do not enjoy the company of those who do not condemn others. They enjoy only the company of those who calumniate others. If some two or three gather and drink the nectar of slander, they feel elated and delighted.
"It is a great sin to condemn others. We should not condemn others". Only those who believe in this principle can praise those who do not condemn others.
"Renouncing the propensity of condemning at all places”. This is one special quality of noble and cultured people. They do not condemn others anywhere either in their house or outside their house; either publicly or privately and secretly; either in words or in thoughts. They righteously discard and renounce the propensity of speaking ill of others. In the history of Shripal, the character and personality of Mayanasundari are fully illustrative of this principle. Mayanasundari did not speak ill of her father, who celebrated her marriage with a young man who was afflicted with leprosy. She did not speak ill of her father even in the company of her husband. Do you admire
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