Even if you see someone in the wrong, think that maybe he’s just acting in such a way and yet has tremendous love for God in his heart. Be neutral. The scriptures say,
“Become neutral. Do not look at that person’s fault. Think him to be better than yourself.”
You may say, “How can I think that? I have not committed any great sin, whereas I can see this other person doing such wrong things.”
Well then, it seems that we are unaware of the eternal truth - the facts, the real facts, of life as stated in the Ved. You should know that there’s no sin that you have not committed. Do not judge or calculate your sins looking at only one lifetime. We have lived countless lives, and during these lives we have committed countless sins.
To give you an example, in the battle of the Mahabharat (the ancient Indian epic history), after all the Kauravas (the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra) had been killed; The Kauravas were the sons of King Dhritarashtra (the blind king of Hastinapur). They belonged to the Kuru dynasty, so they were called Kauravas. So after all the Kauravas had been killed, King Dhritarashtra, their father, was devastated. He was heartbroken. He went to Shree Krishna.
He said, “My Lord, what sin have I committed as a result of which I’m being punished in this way? All of my hundred young sons have been killed in the battle. I am still alive. I’m such an old man, and I have been left behind to cry over their deaths!”
Shree Krishna replied, “Do you mean to say that you have not committed any sin in this lifetime?”
Dhritarashtra was very pious. He said, “No, I have not.”
Lord Krishna said, “How about the previous life?”
He said, “I remember fully well that I did not commit any sin then either.”
“How about the life before that?”
“The same,” said Dhritarashtra.
He was so pious, he remembered his previous three births.
Lord Krishna said, “How about the life before that?”
He said, “That one I do not remember.”
Lord Krishna said, “Out of countless lives, you remember only three. What are merely three lives when speaking of countless? It is not even a drop of water in the ocean. You have committed every sin possible in the course of your countless past lives.”
In fact, we all have. And they are called sanchit pāp (accumulated sins). And they are forgiven only at the time of God-realization.
