Avoid This One Thing To Progress in Bhakti by Radhanath Swami published on 2021-12-03T08:36:24Z If we're in a particular specific role as a leader, where people are under us, sometimes like a parent, we have to correct. But when we're just looking in all directions and finding, you're gonna find if you look for. Srila Prabhupada and all of our acharyas taught us how to appreciate also, because in this world not everything is don't go the way we want them to go and that's Krishna’s grace because if it did, we would make no progress. We are meant to relate with other vaisnavas on a higher level. Srila Bhakti Sidhanta Sarasvati Thakur, when he would see devotees finding faults with each other, he would sit them in front of each other face to face and order them tell me the good qualities of this person. Very difficult! When you're having this kind of conflict and you're a leader and you have other people following you, you have a big ego, ‘oh that's pretty bad.’ But when Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswathi Thakur orders, “I want you to speak the good qualities of this person.” You have to and after a while they're speaking, they realize actually the person has a lot of good qualities and yes! There's things I don't like but that's not what we're focusing on unless that's our specific service to do that for that person. So, for our community to really grow, we must be very very strong and empowering each other to perform our sadhana properly, to perform our service with enthusiasm but that's not really going to happen unless we empower each other to give up our fault-finding tendencies, in other words to be grateful. Genre Bhakti