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The Faults We Observe In Others Are a Reflection of the Faults We Carry In Ourselves · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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.