Finding Faults is Sense Gratification

What is Gossip ???

It means we like to see problems in other people and like to talk about them whether they are there are not.

Srila Prabhupad writes in Srimad bhagvatam, quoting Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, that in this world everyone has faults and everyone has good qualities and the difference between true devotee and one who is not is that a true devotee always focuses on those good qualities and unless he has to absolutely help a person, he doesn’t really talk about faults.

That’s how Srila Prabhupad started our society. He came to places where people had so many faults, but he could find one spark of good quality in them, he used to focuse on it, fan it and bring it out.

If we look at the faults of others, usually we just magnify those faults and bring out more faults. If our actual intention is to bring the potential good out in other people, then even if we correct them is for a purpose of bringing out the good because we see the good, we see the potential, we appreciate the good, we appreciate that potential and that’s actually the quality of a person who is not envious because envy is very clever. Maya is very clever.

Lord Chaitanya says when you try to water the seed of devotion with our spiritual practice like hearing and chanting, weeds grow along with our practice and those weeds, if you are not really careful and sincere, then you will think that that weed is devotional creeper and you will water it and that will strangle the good devotional creeper. So the envious person will generally not say that I am an envious person. A person who is finding faults like this, they will find so many justifications because that’s the nature of the envy which is the most crucade thing of all weapons of maya. It’s really crucade. I am saintly but I will act like this. So vaishnva means no envy.

– HH Radhanath swami

Quote by His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj