Re: Vice of Fault Finding

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada and assembled devotees, please accept my simple obiesances.

Here is a verse by Srila Raghunatha dasa Goswami from Manah-siksa (intructions to the mind) - click here

Verse Six 

Translation 

My dear mind, you have embraced the path of self realization, yet you foolishly think that you are cleansing yourself by bathing in the pretentiously fierce qualities of deceit and fault-finding, which are compared to impure donkey urine. Factually, you are incinerating yourself and dragging an infinitesimal spirit soul like me into the conflagration. Stop this suicidal course! Dive into the immortal ocean of sublime ambrosia that awaits you in loving devotional service at the lotus feet of Shri-Shri Radha and Krishna. Resuscitate my very being and thus give both of us endless happiness.

In this selection of verses Goswami is speaking to his own mind. Instructing it. This instruction is greatly beneficial I find, in all honesty my mind is deeply afflicted with all bad qualities. The good fortune though, is that by God's grace we can distance ourself from that mind, realizing it is not our true nature. This material mind has been cultivated for milleniums, so a winding down of all these incorrect perceptions will take time. We can instruct it as we are spiritual potency (servants of the Potent).

As we become more conscious of our fallen state, we can then cultivate room for others, who are on their journey. There is a lovely purport by Srila Prabhupada (a famous verse in 10th canto - I can't find it) where he says such reactions are not karma as such, but the Lord's special mercy. Like a final burning up and winding down. A rapid purification.

This purport is comforting in that, as we accept the Lord's special mercy in our own life, we can acknowledge that his loving hand is working in the hearts of others also.

I just pray that oneday these false impressions may leave the mind (as Srila Raghunatha dasa Goswami is pointing out). So that pure love and endless happiness may flourish. (ofcourse I can only reflect on my own body/mind - the field of my karma).

in service...Nava.

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