0:21Someone's chanting the pure name every morning, and their heart is overflowing with rasa, they don't have any time for these things. You know?
0:34You should try to have the association of those devotees who have realization in Bhajana, and there's some symptom, they have a symptom. And the symptom is they never criticize anyone. Do you know why? Because when the realization comes, you know this thing. Agyahi doshi, agyahi doshi. Doshi means the culprit, who is the culprit, who is the criminal? Agya, avidya, ignorance, that means this person does this, this person does this, you will become angry with anyone. No, who is at fault? Avidya, ignorance is at fault. So we hate the sin, but not the sinner. So don't criticize anyone, don't become involved in these things. If someone has done anything illegal,
1:29then you can call the police, they can arrest them, you know, but that's not our job. I have no badge, I can't show I am the police, I have to enforce the law and arrest everyone. So there are people whose profession it is to arrest people who have done illegal things, but that's not my job. So life is too short to be involved in the distasteful things, you know? It's said, what does he do to people who are like envious persons, troublemakers? What does he do?
2:06Neglect, pass. This is Madhyam. It does not say in Shastra that the Madhyamath... oh he's so bad at it, and make some complaints. Madhyam-adhikari is, if someone is problematic, they're silent, pass, let it go. Krishna will deal with it. Krishna is the judge and the jury of everyone, and he never makes a miscarriage of justice. He does everything perfectly. So don't see... this is what the big danger, that one will start to see faults in innocent Vaishnavas, and then that will be very, destructive to one's own spiritual life. You know, if someone is concerned for this type of situation, then before a big festival, they can go to the sabha-pati, or they can meet with some of the seniors and say, you know, this problem has come before, so we don't want this to happen again, and it can be arranged. Like, that's the proper way to deal with it. The proper way to deal with it is not to point the finger at many innocent persons, that there's no need to become, oh, excited, you know.
3:46See Krishna, he never becomes excited. So don't become excited on it. Sensationalism. The modern culture is all about the next sensation. So we have to detox. Everyone is coming from this Kali-yuga culture. You have to detox. Vaishnava culture is different. It's completely different. How the ordinary person acts and how Vaishnavas behave is not the same. And we cannot learn it, figure it out ourselves. We have to associate very closely with pure Vaishnavas and see how they're responding also.
4:21Situations, and try to follow that in our life. Don't try to make your own material judgments of a situation. It would be wrong. I've seen my Gurudev deal with so many problems and scandals. How he did it, I was in shock. I was amazed. I said, oh, I want to be like that. I'll follow that. We had the tendency of our mind is to do something else. vācā-vegam, manasaḥ krodha-vegam. But Vaishnavas are different. And until our realizations comes, We will not naturally behave like that. But we can at least remember their example and try to be in the anugatya, following their footsteps.
