The Faults We Observe In Others Are a Reflection of the Faults We Carry In Ourselves

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It is much easier to see and
criticize others for their ideas

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Behavior or habit, then to see
in oneself, potentially those

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same issues.
Jesus raised this issue in his

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Sermon on the Mount.
And why beholdest thou?

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The mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest

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not the beam that is in thine
own eye.

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Or how wilt thou say to thy
brother.

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Let me pull out the mote out of
thine eye.

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And behold a beam is in thine
own eye.

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Thou hypocrite, First cast out
the beam out of thine own eye,

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and then shalt thou See, Clearly
to cast out the mote out of thy

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brother's eye, Jesus is
admonishing, his followers about

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not judging others, when one
does not see one's own faults.

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The mother takes this to a
deeper level by helping us see

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that the natural Affinity by
which we can see and understand

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the actions and motives of
others is part of the

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synchronicity of the universal
creation that implies, that what

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we see has its own Roots within
ourselves.

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And in many cases the actions,
which we find the most abhorrent

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are those which we carry within
ourselves active or latent.

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As the case may be.
The mother writes quote.

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It is rather remarkable that
when we have a weakness for

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example, a ridiculous habit, a
defect or an imperfection since

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it is more or less part of our
nature, we consider it to be

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very natural.
It does not Shock us.

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But as soon as we see this same
weakness, the same imperfection,

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the same ridiculous Habit in
someone else, it seems quite

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shocking to us.
And we say what?

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He's like that without noticing
that, we ourselves are like

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that.
And so do the weakness and

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imperfection, we, add the
absurdity of not even noticing

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them.
There's a lesson to be drawn

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from this when something in a
person seems to you completely

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unacceptable or ridiculous.
What is like that?

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He'd be caves like that?
He says, things like that, he

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does things like that.
You should say to yourself.

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Well, well, but perhaps I do the
same thing without being aware

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of it.
I would do better to look into

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myself first before criticizing
him.

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So as to make sure that I am not
doing the very same thing in a

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slightly different way.
If you have the good sense and

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intelligence to do this, each
time you are shocked by another

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person's Behavior.
You will realize that in life.

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Your relations with others are
like a mirror, which is

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presented to you so that you can
see more easily.

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And clearly the Weaknesses you
carry within you.

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And a general and almost
absolute way.

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Anything that shocks you in
other people is the very thing

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you carry in yourself in a more
or less veiled, more or less

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hidden form though perhaps in a
slightly different guys which

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allows you to delude yourself.
And what in yourself seems

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inoffensive enough becomes
monstrous as soon as you see it

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in others and quote reference
SRI aurobindo in the mother

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living within the yoga approach
to psychological health and

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growth.
Exercises for growth and Mastery

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using Life as a mirror Pages,
158 to 161.