less?” It is better to look at one’s own faults only.
Vinoba then called on Gandhiji who told him that he should enlarge the good qualities in others and also enlarge one’s own faults. Vinoba argue with Gandhiji. He said: You are a seeker after Truth. Then we should stick to truth. Why are you asking me to enlarge the good things in others and bad things in me? Gandhiji replied: What you say is mathematically correct. We should not enlarge or reduce. We should stick to reality. But human beings have to see things in perspective. Our eyes cannot see things from a distance in their actual size. We must have perspective. The good things in others are at a distance. To understand them correctly in the right scale we must look at them with enlargement. While we see our faults always as small ones, to get a right perspective we must enlarge them to remove them.”
Vinoba thereafter accepted this idea. He said: “In the end I started seeing only good things in others and in myself.” He did not want to waste his time in finding fault with any one!.
Vinoba wanted all of us to be like a magnet. A magnet attracts all the pieces of iron or steel, wherever it is moved. Similarly, we should try to see only the good points in others. That reallly makes us better persons. We have less tensions and less quarrels. Vinoba recommends that situation as the expression of one’s best behaviour.
With love, Yours,
L.N. Godbole
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