Rectify Yourself By Condemning Your Own Evil Thoughts
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Paramhamsa Vani
Dec 9, 2025, 10:27:38 PMDec 9
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Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, in His third verse of Shikshastaka, has taught us—if we are to do Harinam without tenfold offenses, we should have four qualities. We should be humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree, should not have the desire of getting name and fame from others but give respect to all in the consideration that our object of love Sri Krishna is existing in the heart of every living being. It is good for sincere aspirants to rectify themselves by condemning or subduing their own evil doings or evil thoughts. Only then, by their own ideal character, they can warn others in regard to these. A bona fide sadhu cannot have any kind of hostile mentality to anybody or any living being in this world. He may condemn the evil practices or doings but he has got no enmity to the persons who are doing such sinful acts. So sadhus are always calm and serene. Nobody in this world can divert his mind from his concentrated devotion to Lord. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us by His own life. Although He knew that Ramchandra Puri committed an offence to Madhavendra Puri, He did not go to discipline Ramchandra Puri because he was godbrother of His Gurudeva Isvara Puri.
We commit a Himalayan blunder when we become hostile to anybody in this world by seeing his bad practices and bad actions. We have got no grudge over any person but we do not support the evil practices. We should condemn those practices. You will find an example of this in Srimad Bhagavata. Dhruva in his childhood accepted the teachings of his mother and Narada completely and effaced from his heart all hostile mentalities against his stepmother, revered father or anybody in this world. Without hostile mentality to anybody, when he called Narayana, he got His grace, Narayana appeared in the forest as 'Narada'.
Our Most Revered Gurudeva Nityalilapravistha Om Vishnupad Sri Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj occasionally used to caution us against disparaging the persons of the pseudo sects but to be careful of our own eternal welfare, we should remain aloof from such evil company and should also condemn the evil practices, but without any personal grudge to anybody. We commit a gross mistake when we reprimand those proponents—persons of anti-devotional ideologies because in reaction there is fear of our being contaminated with those evil thoughts. We should censure the anti-devotional thoughts or practices but not the persons. Any kind of hatred towards any person will be an obstacle to our spiritual amelioration. That we should not do under any circumstance. The conditioned souls, worldly people do like this and quarrel amongst themselves. But a realized sincere sadhu never does this.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, in His third verse of Shikshastaka, has taught us—if we are to do Harinam without tenfold offenses, we should have four qualities. We should be humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree, should not have the desire of getting name and fame from others but give respect to all in the consideration that our object of love Sri Krishna is existing in the heart of every living being. It is good for sincere aspirants to rectify themselves by condemning or subduing their own evil doings or evil thoughts. Only then, by their own ideal character, they can warn others in regard to these. A bona fide sadhu cannot have any kind of hostile mentality to anybody or any living being in this world. He may condemn the evil practices or doings but he has got no enmity to the persons who are doing such sinful acts. So sadhus are always calm and serene. Nobody in this world can divert his mind from his concentrated devotion to Lord. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us by His own life. Although He knew that Ramchandra Puri committed an offence to Madhavendra Puri, He did not go to discipline Ramchandra Puri because he was godbrother of His Gurudeva Isvara Puri.
We commit a Himalayan blunder when we become hostile to anybody in this world by seeing his bad practices and bad actions. We have got no grudge over any person but we do not support the evil practices. We should condemn those practices. You will find an example of this in Srimad Bhagavata. Dhruva in his childhood accepted the teachings of his mother and Narada completely and effaced from his heart all hostile mentalities against his stepmother, revered father or anybody in this world. Without hostile mentality to anybody, when he called Narayana, he got His grace, Narayana appeared in the forest as 'Narada'.
Our Most Revered Gurudeva Nityalilapravistha Om Vishnupad Sri Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj occasionally used to caution us against disparaging the persons of the pseudo sects but to be careful of our own eternal welfare, we should remain aloof from such evil company and should also condemn the evil practices, but without any personal grudge to anybody. We commit a gross mistake when we reprimand those proponents—persons of anti-devotional ideologies because in reaction there is fear of our being contaminated with those evil thoughts. We should censure the anti-devotional thoughts or practices but not the persons. Any kind of hatred towards any person will be an obstacle to our spiritual amelioration. That we should not do under any circumstance. The conditioned souls, worldly people do like this and quarrel amongst themselves. But a realized sincere sadhu never does this.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
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