Can capacity to find faults be an empowerment from Krishna?

Does it answer the question? So, finding faults also requires empowerment. Yes, all power is not necessarily good.

Or power is not automatically used for good purposes. So, yes, in some cases, finding fault can be an important service. Like some devotees, I am an editor.

So, even when we give editorial reviews, some devotees are really good at finding, okay, this doesn't flow like this, this doesn't flow like this. Some devotees may just give some broad reviews. So, editing means critiquing.

That also requires some ability. So, yes, if one has to find fault in a way which is to detect some subtle mistakes that are there, subtle errors that are there, that requires an ability. Definitely.

Now, what am I doing with that ability? Am I using that ability to actually serve Krishna? Or am I just becoming attached to the ability to show everyone else that I have the ability? So, sometimes you may just find faults and that becomes, whenever I am reading an article, every time the whole idea is to have an editorial critique of the article. So, if fault finding, which is an ability, if that becomes a default disposition, then it can become a problem. Sometimes you may notice that, but we have the capacity not to focus on that.

Okay. It is there, but let me focus on the message what it is there. So, the empowerment, fault finding can be an ability which can come from our own past karma or it can also be an empowerment that is given to us by Krishna.

So that we can do a particular service. But every gift can become a threat if it is not used properly. Wealth is there, power is there, beauty is there.

They can become a threat. Similarly, fault finding tendency, if you are using it in a proper way, so proper way would mean a proper forum. If something is wrong, I don't have to tell the whole world about what is wrong.

I find out a proper forum and tell it to someone who can do something about it. Otherwise, we just spread negativity more and more. And we are not a part of the solution.

So, faults are there and finding faults is also sometimes a responsibility. But then it has to be done in a way that is helpful, not harmful. And doing it in the right forum is important.

So, if we do it in a, so for example, going back to Sarodamudra's example, when this Bengali brahmana had made a poem, that was, he wanted to submit to Lord Chaitanya. And all the other devotees appreciated that poem. But Sarodamudra said, no, there is a problem in this poem.

Now, Sarodamudra pointed that problem, but there is no description. Sarodamudra, Goswami went all over Jagannath Puri telling everyone, hey, this person's poem is bad, this person's poem is bad, this person's poem is bad. All that he did was, okay, we cannot present it to Lord Chaitanya.

So, he had a particular purpose. And for that purpose he was ready to do that. So, yes, we, if for a particular purpose, in an appropriate forum, we can express our concerns which may involve finding some faults.

But if it just is done something indiscriminately with everyone, and nowadays with social media available, internet available, it's so easy to just find faults, so that the whole world can see. Then that can create a lot of negativity. And sometimes it may not even actually be a fault.

We are just thinking from our perspective it is a fault, but there is something else going on. So, like any ability, it has, it is a double-edged sword. So, it can be used to, a sword can be used to cut an object, but a sword, if it is careless, it can cut something other than the object also.

It can cut some person, it can cut my own hand, and so like that. We want to use the fault-finding ability to remove the weeds that are growing. But sometimes, if we find faults indiscriminately, we may so much hurt or discourage people that we may end up cutting their bhakti-mata vision.

Because they become so disheartened by the whole thing, I don't want to practice bhakti. So, we have to be careful so that the sword that is used, it is used to cut the weeds, not the beach. Thank you very much.