Do not criticize or comments on others – Sathya Sai Speaks One must abstain from criticising the faults in others or their wrong doings. Criticizing others is greatest of all sins and is like a disease that is incurable. There is no medicine for the disease called criticism. Hence criticism of others can be compared to cancer disease. One must refrain oneself from making fun of others, dishonouring others and criticising others. By criticising others one gets oneself immersed in bad intentions. “Dooshanambu Himsa doorambugaanetti, Daiwachintana taanu dandi parachi, Premathoduga taanu prajalanu choosina, Daiwaprema tanaki kaligi undu!!” Distancing oneself from harming and criticising others, increasing the time spent in contemplation of the Lord, filling oneself with love for others, doing all the above will enhance one’s love for God!! Hence one must put in sincere efforts to abstain from harming and criticising others. “Parulatittinantha papa phlambu abbu, Viduvadennatikadi viswamandu, Parudu parudu kaadu paramathmudenaya, Satyamaina maata sai mata!!” One accumulates sin by abusing others, the results of such sin cannot be escaped, other is not other but the Lord himself, it is the truth that Sai speaks!! The ‘other’, whom one considers as one’s enemy and indulges in abusing and criticising, is in fact the embodiment of the divine self. One must not give place to hatred in one’s heart. One considers another as ‘others’ because of increase of egotism and pomposity. Considering another as ‘other’ is far from truth. Every person is the embodiment of the divine. He is the scriptwriter, director and actor too of the play called world! When somebody criticises, one should think that the Lord himself is doing so for all are His forms. Hence the criticiser and the criticised is one and the same entity. The worshipped and the worshipper are one. Divine Discourse, 21 November, 1987 Sathya Sai Baba