Fault-Finders and their Fault-finding Nature. What Happens to Them at the End?
The Skanda Purana says, "A person... who has always finds fault with others does not achieve a higher destination after death, even if he gives charity generously, or performs other pious deeds." (pg. 138, Ekadasi, the Day of Lord Hari by Krsna Balaram Swami)
There are people who make a practice and even a distinguished career of discovering others' faults. Engaged in the loathsome pursuit, they search for weak spots, blemish, flaws, deficiency in everyone and everything, including sages, saints and innocuous things in life. They smugly label their fault-finding tendency as a byproduct of a "sharp mind that sees through everything and everyone clearly", or explain away their detestable habit by blaming their "eagle-eyes that immediately detect every foible in a character."
Corroborating what Skanda Purana says of such abominable caviler, Sri Krishna declares in Srimad Bhagavad Gita 9:1 that the greatest secret that delivers one from the cycle of births and deaths has been denied to such a fault-finder: "I shall now declare to thee who does not cavil, the greatest secret, the knowledge combined with experience (Self-realisation). Having known this, thou shalt be free from evil."
On this point, Swami Sivananda says, "Even when the nature of God is explained, those who have not been purged of their faults and impurities would either disbelieve or misbelieve it, as was the case with Indra and Virochana. Therefore, knowledge as inculcated arises only in him who has purified himself by austerity, performed either in this or in a previous birth." (page xiii, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Divine Life Society).
In his celebrated work "How to Cultivate Virtues and Eradicate Vices (pages 297-299), Swami Sivananda says, "How can (a fault-finder) think of God, when his mind is ever engaged in finding the faults in others?... He who applies himself diligently to his spiritual practices cannot find even a single second to look into the affairs of others".
There are people who make a practice and even a distinguished career of discovering others' faults. Engaged in the loathsome pursuit, they search for weak spots, blemish, flaws, deficiency in everyone and everything, including sages, saints and innocuous things in life. They smugly label their fault-finding tendency as a byproduct of a "sharp mind that sees through everything and everyone clearly", or explain away their detestable habit by blaming their "eagle-eyes that immediately detect every foible in a character."
Corroborating what Skanda Purana says of such abominable caviler, Sri Krishna declares in Srimad Bhagavad Gita 9:1 that the greatest secret that delivers one from the cycle of births and deaths has been denied to such a fault-finder: "I shall now declare to thee who does not cavil, the greatest secret, the knowledge combined with experience (Self-realisation). Having known this, thou shalt be free from evil."
On this point, Swami Sivananda says, "Even when the nature of God is explained, those who have not been purged of their faults and impurities would either disbelieve or misbelieve it, as was the case with Indra and Virochana. Therefore, knowledge as inculcated arises only in him who has purified himself by austerity, performed either in this or in a previous birth." (page xiii, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Divine Life Society).
In his celebrated work "How to Cultivate Virtues and Eradicate Vices (pages 297-299), Swami Sivananda says, "How can (a fault-finder) think of God, when his mind is ever engaged in finding the faults in others?... He who applies himself diligently to his spiritual practices cannot find even a single second to look into the affairs of others".
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