There is an instruction floating around transcendentalist circles..
"Don't criticize." How many times has someone offered to instruct me for
my own good. But I find that instruction itself is a kind of criticism.
"Critical of the act of criticizing."
Think about it. What if you
took "No" out of your vocabulary? Do you think you might have some
difficulties getting through a day? Through a life?
How is it possible to exist for even moment without making a critical judgement of some sort or other?
It is the function of the mind. To accept and reject.
And what do we base this acceptance and rejection on?
Critical thinking.
For an aspiring devotee the criteria is:
Is this favorable for Krishna consciousness or this is unfavorable.
So this instruction don't criticize is silly.
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