Excerpts from a lecture given by Tamal Krishna Goswami

[Vijayakamala jps]

Sometimes people see that devotees have mistakes and faults
so they say I cant live in close  association
of devotees because they have so many mistakes and shortcomings .U don’t
have
those mistakes and fault ! U mean to say that people in this material world
have no mistakes or fault.!!.  Though a
devotee has shortcomings there is one quality here that distinguishes
devotees
from a non devotees ie he his tolerant and forgiving Prabhupada  said this
is a
hospital it not that everyone
here is a great saint with wings , there are lot of sinners here too,  so we
have to accept the fact that some of the
devotees are suffering due to their sinful reactions and that causes them to
speak in particular way or act in a particular way which may not be
completely
in
Krishna Consciousness,  but the point is
that they r trying to go back to godhead, they know what the path is they r
trying , so you have to tolerate and forgive not lose your tolerance and say
 I
quit I rather live on my own because if u live
on your own u live on your own sense. If u can tolerate your own nonsense
why
cant u tolerate some one else, not that prabhupada for eg did not see how
fallen and nonsense we were but he lived amongst us otherwise how he could
deliver us. So we have to live amongst the devotees tolerating the
inconveniences
Prabhupada once gave a lecture on this and said you have to live amongst the
devotees but tolerate the inconveniences because it is for YOUR GOOD........
to be continued