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The judgment

A spiritual parable about judgment and unseen struggles, using the metaphor of a river stone.

"Consider how many miles it was rolling, how many stones it was hitting, and how many slaps it got until it became so nice, gentle, and beautiful."

"Oh, my God, is this person not able to resist or understand this little crack on it? How much I was suffering for it?"

The speaker recounts a story where Holy Guruji points out beautiful stones to Mahaprabhuji, who responds by urging consideration of the long, painful journey that polished them. The lesson expands to caution against rejecting someone for a small flaw, personifying a cracked stone to lament how its suffering is overlooked. The core teaching is to see the hidden struggles and good in everyone, not to judge superficially.

Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Weekend seminar

It is very easy to judge whether someone is a good or a bad person, but you do not see the other side of that person. For any kind of work we see, we should not judge too easily; we should see what it truly is. Once, Mahāprabhujī was walking on the bank of a river with Holy Gurujī, and there were many little, round, beautiful stones. Gurujī told Mahāprabhujī, "Look how nice these stones are, no?" And what did Mahāprabhujī say? "Ask these stones." Consider how many miles it was rolling, how many stones it was hitting, and how many slaps it got until it became so nice, gentle, and beautiful. Imagine a raw stone falls from the mountain and rolls in the river until you find a beautiful, small, very shining stone. It took a long time for it to become like that. Now you see how beautiful it is. And then you see, suddenly, there is some kind of little crack. One might say, "Oh, it is not good, throw it away." That stone would say, "Oh, my God, is this person not able to resist or understand this little crack on it? How much I was suffering for it?" Like this, we should see everyone's abilities and everyone's good work. That is very important. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Weekend seminar

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