Giriraj Swami discussed Srila Rupa Gosvami’s The Nectar of Instruction.
“Srila Prabhupada said, ‘We have to become conscious before we become Krishna conscious.’ We should not talk about others without reason. In other words, there should be some filtering process between what goes on in our mind and what comes out of our mouth—at least in the beginning. After Krishna went to Mathura, He sent Uddhava to meet the gopisin Vrindavan, and they had so many complaints about Krishna—of course, all on the platform of the highest love. But they had so many complaints about Krishna, not only in His present lifetime but in previous lifetimes as well. They concluded, ‘If Krishna can live without us, we can live without Him—but we cannot live without talking about Him.’ So when our mind is so filled with Krishna that the only thing that can come out of our mouth is Krishna, then we don’t need to worry about filtering. But when we have different things in our mind, we should be conscious and careful before we speak.”
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