Why are great devotees sometimes subjected to baseless vicious accusations?

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thank you how do you understand when great devotees who live very saintly lives are subjected to grievous and totally faceless charges and they are criticized publicly for that answer you have to see that at many different ways I would say three levels or three ways first is that criticism or infamy is simply the flip side of fame in this world anybody who becomes famous will be criticized that is just the nature of the world somebody may want to become famous for Krishna in the sense that they want to glorify Krishna they don’t want to be famous for themselves but because they glorify Krishna so well then people become attracted to them and that’s how in making Krishna famous they themselves may become famous so a devotee may get the opulence of Krishna in terms of fame and when that happens the flip side of fame is infamy that’s just the way the world is and therefore a devotee has to see that this infamy I am getting is simply the price I have to pay for glorifying Krishna so that way sometimes when we go through we can see pain as purposeful let’s say a mother who is delivering a child doesn’t want labor pain but she knows labor pain is the way to growth is the way to the delivery way to having a child so similarly as a part of glorifying Krishna we have to go through such situations as these where we will have to face infamy you can also see that there is a general trend in religious movements that it is not only religious people who come there and all kinds of people come there and not all of them come with either pure hearts or even with pure intentions so some people come so that their intentions can be purified and some people come to fulfill their impure intentions so when people are accusing why are we accusing we don’t know that it may simply be because when we are in the material world even those organizations that are a part of the path out of the material world they are also from the practical perspective in this world so people with ulterior motives just hit out at somebody else to fulfill their own agendas and sometimes they may be hurt by some other leaders and they take that out on some other leader because that leader is no longer there or that leader they don’t have the power or any reason to hurt them to attack them so they generalize the negative experiences and they demonize the entire leadership of the movement and they want to criticize the entire movement along with all its leaders so that could be also a reason why this is happening generally we have to keep our sins fixed on Krishna we have to understand I am here for Krishna and let me accept that association and that inspiration which helps me move towards Krishna and thirdly you can see that actually especially after the founder of the charismatic movement departs all these organizations have had chaos it’s just unavoidable so similarly after the charismatic founder of this movement he departed there has been chaos and rather than such accusations which come from the past and keep haunting we see them as remnants of a terrible past that we have all gone in that our leaders have had to go through H T T P S and they have helped us go through it and navigate and get over it so we can appreciate that appreciate that through the chaos that happens when the founder departs they have guided us and brought us to a much safer place to practice spiritual life and that they went through it, some reminders of that are there now so we can appreciate their maturity and expertise in providing us a safer place to practice bhakti and rather being disturbed when things are coming we can be grateful that such things are not prominent although they were quite much more prevalent earlier and that is because of the expert leadership of the leaders who are now tolerating the infamy which is being unfairly directed towards them so we can increase our appreciation for the saintliness of these Vaishnavas and thus become more dedicated to our bhakti