Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in His third verse of Shikshastaka has taught us, if we are to do harinam without tenfold offences, we should have these four qualities: We should be humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree, should not have the desire of getting name and fame from others but give respect to all in the consideration that our object of love, Sri Krishna, is existing in the heart of every living being. It is good for sincere aspirants to rectify themselves by condemning or subduing their own evil doings or evil thoughts. Only then, by their own ideal character, they can warn others in regard to these. A bona fide sadhu never has any kind of hostile mentality to anybody or any living being in this world. He may condemn the evil practices or doings but he has got no enmity for the persons who are doing such sinful acts. So sadhus are always calm and serene. Nobody in this world can divert a sadhus mind from his concentrated devotion to the Lord. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us by His own life. Although He knew that Ramchandra Puri committed offence to Madhavendra Puri, He did not go to discipline Ramchandra Puri because he was the godbrother of His Gurudeva, Isvara Puri.

We commit a Himalayan blunder when we become hostile to anybody in this world due to seeing his bad practices and bad actions. We have got no grudge against any person but we do not support the evil practices. We should condemn those practices. You will find an example of this in Srimad Bhagavatam. Dhruva, in his childhood, accepted the teachings of his mother and Narada completely effaced from his heart all hostile mentalities against his stepmother, revered father or anybody else in this world. Without hostile mentality to anybody, when he called Narayana, he got His grace, and Narayana appeared in the forest as `Narada'.

Our Most Revered Gurudeva Nityalilapravistha Om Vishnupad Sri Srimat Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj occasionally used to caution us against disparaging the persons of the pseudo sects. To be careful of our own eternal welfare, we should remain aloof from such evil company and should also condemn the evil practices, but without any personal grudge to anybody. We commit a gross mistake when we reprimand those proponents - persons of anti-devotional ideologies, because in reaction there is fear of our being contaminated with those evil thoughts. We should censure the anti-devotional thoughts or practices but not the persons. Any kind of hatred to any person will be an obstacle to our spiritual amelioration. That we should not do under any circumstance. The conditioned souls, worldly people do this and quarrel amongst themselves. But a realised sincere sadhu never does this.