Swajan: Our respected elder gave us lots of things for our new house but now he is not as friendly and has changed his tunes.
Pujya Shree Mota; We felt good when he prepared the things for the house and gave it to us. Suppose he did not give us anything and showed unpleasantness towards us and also was talking nonsense; if we can actively keep our goodness towards him, then only it is true goodness and goodwill. We need to behave in such a way with all of our aquainstances.
It is not a big deal if we have goodness towards the people who are nice to us. You should believe it only when the goodness is constantly present towards people who have done injustice to us, done harm to us, spoiled our reputation and expressed unjustified contempt and bad feelings towards us in public. It is also a fact that our mind has thought about lots of unjustified matters pertaining to him.
Slander or contempt can be done with speech, eyes and the mind in the mind. It is one of the biggest bad quality. The soul that has contempt for someone, can never keep trust worthiness with the heartfelt sincerity. Even if he keeps trust worthiness towards someone, there is not much truthfulness in his honesty and intention. Life cannot be moulded by such trust worthiness.
Pujya Shree Mota
Aavi Mane A Avasar (આવી મળે એ અવસર)
Edition 1; Pages 48 - 49.
