SEE GOODNESS IN OTHERS

I think it is proper and more constructive, as long as we are sentient beings and are engulfed in conflicts of attachments and jealousy, to try hard to get free from the successive thoughts that arise within us against another human being. It is better than telling that person about it. It is much better to recall good thing and experiences regarding that person or party when bad thoughts rise within us about them. You can evaluate both kind of thoughts then. At the same time you should not completely merge in the oppositional vrutties (tendencies) that arise within you. We can never throughly evaluate anyone till we have complete expression of evenhandedness, equanimity and witness consciousness within us. It is best for us to turn our face away, then see faults of others. We begin to start thinking improperly of others as a result of some impatience, anger, passion or some isolated incidence. It is ignorance and lack of generosity to think that the oppositional thoughts arising in us are appropriate.

Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sanshodhan
Edition 6; Page 114.

My two cants : This letter was written in response to devotee's oppositional thoughts regarding Pujya Shree Mota.