Cc Madhya 12.213-13.65

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I'll tell you one thing, just the sound of it: 'kuṭīnāṭī' doesn't sound good. You don't want that. What do you got? Kuṭināṭī—crooked intelligence. It's just kind of a default mode in the material world:

icchā-dveṣa-samutthena

dvandva-mohena bhārata

sarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ

sarge yānti paran-tapa

(BG 7.27)

People are icchā-dveṣa, they don't even know they're doing it. They're impelled by their previous associations to abhor some things and to support other things. They're practically blindly doing it because of the force of material nature. And to take that stance of criticizing as one's main platform in life... because there's the thesis, the antithesis, and then the synthesis. Instead of coming to the synthesis, many people take the antithesis because it gives them a platform to distinguish themselves from others. Those who haven't made a lot of spiritual advancement need some place to get a platform. So they take the antithesis, and they become the outspoken people who are bold enough—the bulldogs—to criticize everybody and 'call a spade a spade,' because 'somebody's got to do it.'

And they stay in that because they get some accolades, like, 'Way to go! Somebody's got to do this!' But it becomes a preoccupation for them just to find fault with everybody, instead of looking for solutions or showing by example how to do it better, which is one thing Prabhupāda regularly told people who had criticisms for others. He would say, "Why don't you show a better way? Just show it, and then you don't have to criticize the other one so much."

It's not to say that constructive criticism isn't helpful; it's very necessary. We have to find where we are lacking and try to fix it. But I think the mentality that is there, the crooked idea that 'I'll take this as my banner in life,' that really distracts one from the process of chanting, takes one away from 'tṛṇād api sunīcena,' and who knows, you could take birth as a kind of Yamarāja character in your next life. Just want to be the one who punishes everybody, or something like that.

(excerpt from discussion)

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