First we must understand what humbleness is because different people have different understanding of what constitutes humbleness. Someone may say, humbleness means someone speaks very sweetly and always bows down with folded hands. This is the external application of humbleness. But there is internal realization of humbleness. How do you exhibit that? Genuinely feel I am a fool and need improvement. So you take advice which is given for our spiritual benefit. If you want to have good Vaishnava relationship our endeavor should be not only to speak words that are truthful, not only to speak words that are beneficial but also to speak them in a manner that does not agitate others.
A devotee has no enemy therefore he can forgive. Somebody else may identify a devotee as his enemy but a devotee has no enemy. Even if a devotee is in some difficulty he does not blame anyone for it. So one should develop the quality of forgiveness. If you develop the quality of forgiveness then you will find that Vaishnava relationship will develop very well with others.
H H Gopal Krishna Goswami
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