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Video Information: 15.06.24, Vedant: Basics to Classics
Context:
~ Is it bad to judge others?
~ Should we not be judgemental?
~ How to judge others rightly?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 15.06.24, Vedant: Basics to Classics
Context:
~ Is it bad to judge others?
~ Should we not be judgemental?
~ How to judge others rightly?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Namaste Sir, so my question is, in new spirituality there is this thing taking off, back when
00:12I was in university I learned this thing in one of the workshops, basically the learning
00:24that they share is, don't judge intentions behind other people's mistakes.
00:36So this brings me to the question that should we not scrutinize or audit other's mistakes,
00:45I mean there could be some hidden conscious subconscious agenda lying over there, should
00:51we not try to see why someone committed mistake accidentally or maybe consciously, so I did
00:59not understand the basic meaning of this, is it even true?
01:09We have already gone too far, how do I know first of all there is a mistake, what is the
01:18definition of mistake, there is somebody in front of me, how do I know somebody has
01:25made a mistake, judging etc comes later, what do you mean by mistake, there is only one
01:37mistake, whether made by you or somebody else, which is to act in ignorance, what other mistake
01:49can anybody make, the fundamental mistake then is to not to know the definition of mistake,
02:03or will you judge the mistaken one, if you do not even know what mistake really means.
02:21Do not judge somebody wearing crimson, I told this to Shiva, he said sir I have a small problem,
02:38what I do not know what crimson is, judging etc comes much later,
02:50first of all you must know what crimson is, the one who is mouthing this phrase wherever it is
03:01coming from is utterly confident that he knows that somebody has made a mistake,
03:09does the originator of this phrase know his own mistake, he says do not judge the intention
03:17behind other people's mistakes, assumption upon assumption, and that is what happens in
03:33absence of self knowledge, in absence of self knowledge you do not know what you are taking
03:40as the truth or as a fact, it is just your assumption, I am very confident he has made
03:48a mistake and then I am saying you know I am so magnanimous, I do not want to judge you,
03:54but have you ever known your own mistakes, how will you know first of all that the fellow
04:00has made a mistake, the only mistake is ignorance, what other mistake can be there
04:20and there are not many mistakes,
04:23there is only one central mistake that we all make
04:30which is to act and keep looking at the object being acted on,
04:44blissfully forgetting the subject of action,
04:48totally oblivious to who the actor is,
04:55completely obsessed with the object of action,
05:01I mean with where I am standing I cannot elaborate much more on this,
05:14where I am standing I cannot elaborate much more on this unless you have something else to ask.
05:21So basically the person from whom I learned this, he used to say for example if your
05:29maid accidentally dropped something precious, something made of you know glass or something
05:38from the kitchen, so you should not judge, you should not go behind her mentality,
05:43you should not try to judge her mentality why she dropped it or maybe it was some
05:47hidden agenda, I gave her less salary the previous month or something like that,
05:52so this is the kind of example I got. But it is entirely possible that she
05:57dropped it because she felt she wasn't being paid enough, it is entirely possible,
06:02don't you do that? We all do that, if we all do that why won't the maid do that?
06:13Is spirituality some kind of enforced morality or is the maid
06:23specifically lending from some other universe? It is entirely possible.
06:32Just that there is no need to act to sure of that,
06:41there are five other possibilities as well, who knows what happened.
06:47What does one do then? One inquires, one wants to learn, be it your own case
06:55or somebody else's, one wants to learn.
06:58Maybe she has dropped something more precious than the glass,
07:07you do want to learn about the event, we inquire with the intention to come to the fact.
07:21Quick judgments are for the unthinking ones,
07:24quick judgments are for mentally sluggish people,
07:30you don't want to take the pains of inquiry, so what do you do?
07:35You slouch on your sofa and just judge, that saves you the whole process of inquiry.
07:46Inquiry takes time, effort, discipline, does it not? Judgment takes nothing.
07:54You hear the sound of shattering glass and say, you know, I always knew she was a bitch.
08:04How much effort does it take? Zero.
08:11And it requires some diligence and some honesty to walk up to the kitchen, speak to her,
08:20look at the evidence, ask questions, reflect on yourself, do many a thing
08:28and then let the fact slowly emerge from there.
08:34It's not without reason that we are judgmental.
08:37Judgments are cheap and easy, they save you labor.
08:48Not that we are judgmental about just others, we are equally judgmental about ourselves.
08:58His logic was just that it will spare you the headache, it will, you know, you don't have to
09:04worry. What if the maid is really doing it on purpose? Don't you want to discover?
09:23Being judgmental does not mean being judgmental in an inverse way.
09:31When we say somebody is judgmental, we usually mean that the fellow has a poor opinion of others,
09:36right? What if somebody necessarily has a great opinion of others? Is that not equally bad?
09:45No, the maid didn't do it on purpose. She is divine. And what does that give you? Six more
09:52broken glasses. She is neither heinous nor divine. She is just every bit as human as I am.
10:16If I want to know myself, I will inquire. If I want to know her, I will
10:21inquire. Simple. There is no need to term somebody a devil. There is also no need
10:41to term somebody a deity. Go find out. Why judge?
10:51All judgments are just lazy assumptions, are they not? Why judge?