calling a spade a spade, fault finding and blasphemy
jaimin
between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and
calling a spade a spade?
Prabhupada: A spade a spade... Just like I am saying that "What you
are? You are small fig only." That is reality. And what is the other?
Tamala Krsna: The other is fault-finding and...
Prabhupada: Fault-finding, that is another fault, that... vranam
icchanti, maksika vranam icchanti, madhum icchanti(?) Just like the
flies, they are finding out where is sore, and the bees, they are
finding out where there is honey. So two animals, they have got two
business: fault-finding and collecting the good things. These are
two... Just like creature. They are two classes. Similarly, there are
many rascals who are simply fault-finding.
Tamala Krsna: And blasphemy?
Prabhupada: Blasphemy means you have good qualities, but still, I am
defaming you.
Tamala Krsna: So the saintly person tends to overlook the bad
qualities and see the good ones.
Prabhupada: Yes.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura