vaiṣṇavera nindya-karma nāhi pāḍe kāṇe |
sabe kṛṣṇa-bhajana kare—ei-mātra jāne ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.13.133)
“He [i.e., Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa] would not take into his ears [talk of] censurable acts of Vaiṣṇavas. ‘Everyone engages in Kṛṣṇa-bhajana.’ He perceived only of this.”
para-vācyeṣu nipuṇaḥ sarvo bhavati sarvadā |
ātma-vācyaṁ na jānīte jānann api ca muhmati ||
(Unknown source)
“Everyone is always expert in regard to the faults of others [alt., in commenting on or criticizing others]. They are unaware [however] of their own faults, or, even if they are aware, they are mistaken [about them, as they don’t know how to analyze themselves properly].”
prabhu bole—bhakta-vākya kṛṣṇera varṇana |
ihāte ye doṣa dekhe, se-i ’pāpī’ jana ||
ihāte ye doṣa dekhe, tāhāra se doṣa |
bhaktera varṇana-mātra kṛṣṇera santoṣa ||
(Chaitanya-bhāgavata: 1.11.105, 109)
“Prabhu said, ‘A bhakta’s statements are descriptions of Kṛṣṇa. One who finds fault in these is a sinful person. … The fault [in this case] is [actually] that of the one who finds fault in these [descriptions of Kṛṣṇa made by a bhakta]. Any description of [i.e., made by] a bhakta is satisfying to Kṛṣṇa [regardless of whether it has faults in it].”
kṛṣṇa-tad-bhakta-vidveṣa-vinindādy-asahiṣṇutā |
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.82)
“Non-tolerance of enmity, defamation, and so forth of Kṛṣṇa and his bhaktas [is one of the sixty-four limbs of bhakti].”
sad-guṇālaṅkṛte kāvye doṣān mṛgayate khalaḥ |
vane puṣpa-phalākīrṇe karabhaḥ kaṇṭakān iva ||
(Subhāṣita-ratna-kośa)
“The wicked search for faults in poetry adorned with good qualities just as a camel searches for thorns within a forest full of fruits and flowers.”
khalo mṛgayate doṣaṁ guṇa-pūrṇeṣu vastuṣu |
vane puṣpa-phalākīrṇe purīṣam iva sūkaraḥ ||
(Unknown Source)
“The wicked search for faults within objects full of qualities just as a pig searches for stool within a forest full of fruits and flowers.”
mṛgayati khalo doṣaṁ na jātu guṇam |
maṇimaya-mandira-madhye paśyati pipīlikā chidram ||
(Attributed to Madhvācārya)
“The wicked search for faults and never for qualities, just as ants look for holes inside a jeweled temple.”
mauna-vrata-śruta-tapo-’dhyayana-sva-dharma-
vyākhyā-raho-japa-samādhaya āpavargyāḥ |
prāyaḥ paraṁ puruṣa te tv ajitendriyāṇāṁ
vārtā bhavanty uta na vātra tu dāmbhikānām ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.9.46; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 168)
“O Puruṣa [i.e., O indwelling Regulator], the means to apavarga [i.e., mokṣa]—silence, rites, hearing [i.e. learning the Vedas], austerities, studying, [observing one’s] svadharma, explaining [i.e., teaching the Vedas to others], [residing in] solitude, japa, and samādhi [i.e., meditation]—generally here [i.e., in saṁsāra], however, become mere livelihoods of those of uncontrolled senses, and sometimes, however, not even that for the deceitful [since the fruitfulness of deceitfulness is uncertain].”
dambha-nyāsa-miṣeṇa vañcita-janaṁ bhogaika-cintāturaṁ
sammuhyantam ahar-niśaṁ viracitodyoga-klamair ākulam |
ājñā-laṅghinam ajñam ajña-janatā-sammānanāsan-madaṁ
dīnānātha dayā-nidhāna paramānanda prabho pāhi mām ||
(Bhāvārtha-dīpikā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.87.39)
“This person cheated by the fraud of deceitful renunciation (sannyāsa) [i.e., who has cheated himself and others by making a hypocritical show of renunciation], afflicted by constant thought of enjoyment, completely agitated day and night, overwhelmed by exhaustion from [his own] contrived undertakings, a transgressor of your orders, ignorant, and maddened by honor from the ignorant masses—O Lord of the humble, O Reservoir of grace, O Supreme Bliss, O Prabhu! Please protect me.”
nāguṇī guṇinaṁ vetti guṇī guṇiṣu matsarī |
guṇī ca guṇarāgī ca viralo saralo janaḥ ||
(Subhāṣita-ratna-bhāṇḍāgāra: 45.13)
“The unqualified do not recognize the qualified, and the qualified are [often] envious of the [others who are] qualified. A sincere person who is both qualified and appreciative of qualities [in others] is rare.”
