Question: How can one learn not to criticize others - without causing to much strain to a beginner?
Swami Madhavananda: It bespeaks a 'holier than you' attitude, to have this problem at all. Here is one idea: A person's sins are being washed off onto oneself when one criticizes that person. This is an old and familiar way of thinking to us."
"A person's sins are being washed off onto oneself when one criticizes that person." There is a brilliance in the simplicity of this. Of course putting this into practice doesn't feel as simple. Thank you.
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