Does spiritual knowledge decrease our tendency to find faults with the present?
Characteristics of spiritual growth is that our fault finding tendency decreases in 16th chapter Krishna says one of the characteristics of godly is apaishunam they are averse to fault finding in the Bhagavatam also it is said that everybody acts according to their nature and therefore the wise person neither praises nor criticizes people are simply acting according to their nature and it's all temporary so it's like I don't know how it is in America but in India sometimes they go in crowded trains and the trains may not be very clean the train may have a mess over there now if in the train there is no fan so it's very hot now if I'm in the train if I want to be there for half an hour one hour it's not that in that time while I'm trying to catch the train I'll go and buy a fan and I'll fix a fan over there I don't need to do that because I know that I'm just for a short time over there so many of the inconveniences that we face in life just understand that they are temporary and then they transition we are going somewhere else which is a better place then we don't get so aggrieved about it generally being in the present is romanticized in today's world there is a problem if we are too caught in the present then sometimes the present may be really gloomy then at that time it is only the understanding that this present is temporary that's what enables us to move forward if a patient is in terrible pain and then just be in the present well the present is miserable at that time so what helps the patient to tolerate is this present pain is temporary I have to move forward the patient understands that I am being healed I am under treatment, I am being healed so I can tolerate in fact the Bhagavad Gita what we discussed earlier tam sitikshya sobhar tolerate and tolerate because agam apayino nityas that whatever is happening is temporary so we we have to live in the present in the sense that the present is what we pass through but we don't have to live for the present the patient is not living for the pain that they are experiencing right now the patient is going through the pain but the patient is living for the healthy state that is going to come in the future and that healthy state is what enables the patient to not become too bogged down by the present pain.