Why did Vali attribute negative intention to Sugriva – was he already suspicious?

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So, if we attribute intention based on our perception of people, why do you attribute negative intention to Supriya? Actually, it was not immediate. First was that in the cave, when he saw that the cave door was closed, from that time, the suspicions started coming. And then he tried to push and push and the more that came, the more this could not have been done naturally.
Some person must have done it. And eventually, when he came out and when he saw Supriya on the throne, when I am alive, how can he be sitting on the throne? That was like a confirmation for him. So, generally, at that time, he was already exhausted, he was frustrated and he was infuriated.
That is not at all a good situation emotionally to be in to make a judgment. You know, if there is a court case going on against us, we do not want the judge to be in an angry mood at that time. We do not want the judge to be exhausted at that time.
Sometimes, say a cricket match is going on and the umpire is so exhausted, the umpire wants to go home. Now, the umpire starts every appeal, out, out, out. So, you know, the judgment is decided that he has to be patient.
So, actually, there was a circumstance also involved over there. But because he was in an emotionally starved state, you could say, exhausted, frustrated, infuriated, that is how through it, through a chain of events, first the boulder closing and then Supriya sitting on the throne, both of them coupled. So, that is how his normal perception of Supriya was slowly got reversed.
So, right from seeing the boulder, his positive perceptions started