To maintain equanimity in pleasure and pain or praise and blame is a difficult proposition. It cannot be achieved by scholarship. One may wonder how this is possible for mankind to maintain such equanimity. You should ask who is the one that criticises and who is the one that is criticised. If you consider that it is the body that is criticised, then it is good. Because we ourselves condemn the body as a container of foul material like urine, faecal matter, etc. and made up of merely the five elements. While so, why should you be affected by the criticism of another? If it is Atma that is criticised, the same Atma is present in both - the person who is criticising and the one that is criticised. So this means he is criticising himself! Both praise and blame pertain only to the body - one must recognise this truth and conduct oneself accordingly. If you consider that the other person is criticising you, that means you are accepting the contents thereof. If you say you are not the one being criticised, you do not receive it, it goes back to the sender.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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