Sunday, January 3, 2010

Find faults in ourselves, not others!

Verses 1.13.32-33 (Uma Mataji)

* Very nice sholka giving a practising message to vaisnavas.
* The pandavas had to do the war of Kurukshetra under the direction of the Lord. Maharaj Yudhistira was always taking the responsibility of the war and of the killing of all the sons of Dhrtrashtra.
* He used to everyday pay respects to Dhrtrastra and his wife Gandhari.
* Today, they were not visible in the house.
* As a pious man, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira took into account all his unavoidable misdeeds, and he never thought of the misdeeds of his uncle and company. Dhrtarashtra had suffered the effects of his own misdeeds by the will of the Lord, but MY was thinking only of his own unavoidable misdeeds. That is the nature of a good man and devotee of the Lord.
* This is the nature of the devotee: A devotee never finds fault with others, but tries to find his own and thus rectify them as far as possible.
* We should respect people for what they are, then only we have achieved humility.
* We should always look into ourselves for faults, not into others. That's how we can employ Sri CM's shloka: trnad api sunicena...
* Pray for keeping mind straight and focus on being humble, without hurting other vaisnavas.

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