Gossip!

It means Go On Silly Souls It Proves Sickness. (GOSSIPS)

When you are miserable and have a somewhat empty life, you get drawn into a net of gossiping. But what you do not realize is that a person who gossips to you, will also gossip about you. Swami Says: “Respect the fool and save the noise. Do not wrestle with a pig, because the pig will love it”.

Gossip happens everywhere. Do people have ears to listen, or to hear? Gossips are empty souls, influenced by the company they keep. The place to acquire peace is the temple. This is the place where you learn discipline, where you listen to discourses by Guru’s or learned people. It’s where you are supposed to connect with God.

But, sadly, the temple is where you get gossip. People need to use their common sense to stay on the path of righteousness and to reach God. Some people however see gossiping as an art, a hobby and that is why it is so important to watch and discriminate. You need to choose your friends and when someone gossips to you, you need to ask yourself….

1. What good is it going to do for me?
2. Is it going to benefit me?

Entertaining gossip makes you an accomplice, because you are just as guilty as the one that spreads gossip. By listening to bhajans, and keeping your mind focused on God, occupied by good deeds and thoughts, gossip cannot take hold of you.

Remember: Idle minds are the Devil’s workshop!

A story that is related here, clearly illustrates how dangerous and destructive gossip can be.

A gentleman by the name of John sees a woman, Mary talking to another man. John knows both Mary and her husband James. John goes home and reports to his wife, Jane that Mary is having an affair. Jane spreads this story to all their friends and the community in general.

John says to wife Jane, that James, a good man, needs to know what Mary is doing. When James hears this, he angrily confronts his wife asking her if she is having an affair. She replies that she’s not! The tension builds up between Mary and James. James refuses to divulge who told him this. Mary becomes very sad, disappointed and hurt that James has lost his trust in her. Their marriage takes strain, because distrust has now been created.

James continues to harass Mary for the truth and Mary becomes exhausted in her effort to convince James of her innocence. With the breakdown of this once solid marriage, James starts to drink alcohol. He becomes abusive and shows little care for Mary. Mary decides to leave home.

When she hears from different sources, criticism about her alleged affair, she decides to end her life. She is forced to take this drastic step. Women, generally, will not allow slander to ruin their lives. James took his vows to love Mary unconditionally, but he failed her when he mistrusted her, and believed the gossip and rumours. Mary had no support and thus she became weak and succumbed to suicide.

It was only after her funeral, that James realized that it was all malicious gossip and rumours. She had been merely chatting to an old school friend when she was seen by John. James to now live with a death certificate in his hands, because of foolishly entertaining and believing idle gossip. Even fighting with John and Jane thereafter, was not going to bring Mary back to him.

The lesson learnt, is that the one that gossips has no conscience and often thinks that they are doing the right thing. But Gossip is evil, nurtured in the heart of Satan. There are 2 ways to view gossip.

First, when somebody gossips, they actually reveal their true personalities, and you need to back off.

Secondly, it makes you wiser and increases your power of knowledge. If someone hurts you once, its their fault, if they hurt you twice; its your fault, because it simply means that you were unable to learn from your previous experience.

GOSSIP IS THE DEVIL’S RADIO SO DON’T BE HIS DJ