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What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?

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"what is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Blasphemy means you have good qualities, but still, I am defaming you.... Just like the flies, they are finding out where is sore, and the bees, they are finding out where there is honey. So two animals, they have got two business: fault-finding and collecting the good things.... A spade a spade... Just like I am saying that "What you are? You are small fig only." That is reality.
Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura:

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?

Prabhupāda: A spade a spade... Just like I am saying that "What you are? You are small fig only." That is reality. And what is the other?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The other is fault-finding and...

Prabhupāda: Fault-finding, that is another fault, that... vraṇam icchanti, makṣikā vraṇam icchanti, madhum icchanti(?) Just like the flies, they are finding out where is sore, and the bees, they are finding out where there is honey. So two animals, they have got two business: fault-finding and collecting the good things. These are two... Just like creature. They are two classes. Similarly, there are many rascals who are simply fault-finding.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And blasphemy?

Prabhupāda: Blasphemy means you have good qualities, but still, I am defaming you.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So the saintly person tends to overlook the bad qualities and see the good ones.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Like Kṛṣṇa's dealing with Pūtanā.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Page Title:What is the way to draw the line between the following three things: blasphemy, fault-finding, and calling a spade a spade?
Compiler:Labangalatika, Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:06 of Feb, 2009
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1