Should we pray that other devotees overcome their demonic qualities or not see any faults in devotees?

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so if we say that aaj is used also so can we pray that others be freed from their demoniac desires we cannot we cannot physically we cannot walk about with closed eyes similarly relationally by closing our eyes not looking at the individual natures at every individual nature is a constellation of strengths and weaknesses so now we cannot not notice the weaknesses that people have there is one thing which is noticing it and the other is stressing it harping on it reducing people to their weaknesses some people are just forgetful now if we label them they are forgetful and then that determines everything that we all of our interactions that is unease at the same time something important needs to be done we know that they are forgetful either we give it to someone else so we have to be real in our interaction with others but while being real we need to focus on others good we are aware of people shortcomings we don’t have to harp on them we don’t have to reduce people to those shortcomings and we try to get inspiration from their good and we also try to engage their good side as much as possible according to our position Shri Prabhupada was obviously aware when he came to America of the many deficiencies that his early disciples had their only regulative principle was to break all those deficiencies so breaking for others especially the word demoniac is a little strong I prefer the word ungodly godly tendency it’s a little softer word and we don’t want to say that devotees have demoniac desires but we all have lower desires we have ungodly desires in us breaking for someone else specifically asking Krishna to help them overcome a particular weakness that can actually generally the more specific a stimulus the stronger becomes the emotion associated with it more specific a stimulus the stronger the emotion associated with it for example if I say the earth has been ravaged by global warming by climate change it’s a big thing but there was a garden where in my childhood I used to play it destroyed that climate change then that actually evokes stronger emotion in general abstract principles they may appeal to the head they appeal to the intelligence but they don’t evoke emotion it is specific facts specific examples if I have a specific the emotion is always stronger than the specific stimulus not as a universal principle the same principle applies when we are praying for a devotee just say Krishna please bless this person that’s also a very generic you could offer that prayer let this person be interchangeable you could just replace A with B with C with D but if it’s a more specific prayer Krishna this devotee has this ability please help them to develop this ability by which they can serve you more and please protect them from crime while they are using this ability in your service then because stimulus becomes more specific the emotion also becomes stronger so in general offering specific prayers which acknowledge people’s strength and focus on people’s strength but also acknowledge their weakness and pray to Krishna to help them develop their strength and help them to manage their weakness we can actually become very powerful ourselves connect with Krishna