There's a principle that when you appreciate the good qualities in others, then they become part of you. But if you become envious of others, or don't try to understand actually what they're doing and you disparage them, then you lose that advantage. So in the culture of respect, when you see somebody that's doing something, I think you said it too. When you see somebody doing something better than you're doing it, you should have the humility to appreciate them and be able to approach them, and that way you can receive knowledge. I

f you see somebody who's sincerely engaged in practicing God consciousness and chanting the Lord's Names, if you take the urge of envy, and then say something to knock them down a peg or two so that you feel better about yourself. Then not only do you lose the opportunity to take on their good qualities and do what they're doing. But there's also kind of a universal way in which when somebody is sincerely trying to worship God and then you say something bad about them, to defame them, then the person that they are aspiring to appreciate doesn't appreciate you. In this case, it's, it's Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And Krishna does take it personally when those who are His devotees are not spoken of kindly when they should be. So we should respect our own consciousness and realize that it's not to be wasted, because our consciousness is a part of the supreme consciousness. Therefore it's divine. We're units of the supreme like the sunshine is a unit of the sun. So we're the same as but different at the same time. So when we notice our own consciousness, we should be respectful of it and not waste it.

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