We must grieve for those who are not blessed with devotion. To despise them would
be arrogance. The devotion that God has endowed us with, will vanish before arrogance. The
Idu,* a great Vaishnavite classic in Tamil, has it as follows: "One can know for
oneself if one is a true Vaishnava. If a man is genuinely distressed at the sufferings of
others, then it may be assumed he is a godly person. If, on the other hand, he gloats over
the sufferings of another, saying: 'he deserves this and much more,' then he is not a true
Vaishnava."
*I pronounced like ea in eat. |
