In plain words
Because you are stepping into a right you do not have, you turn into a great sinner. We must ask ourselves whether we have any such right or not. Those who count the faults of others do not know their own. The one who searches out his own faults is blessed; but if he searches out the faults of others, he turns into the worst. ‘Brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati.’ Whatever kind of thoughts one thinks, one comes to experience that kind of thought oneself. Even if there is really no fault in you, by describing the faults of others the fault takes shape in you. An example. You have a camera with you. If you set your camera on someone else's form, focus it and press the switch, his form falls into your camera. In the same way, this body is a camera, your heart is a film, and your speech is the switch. Whoever's fault you focus on and switch on, it gets printed in your heart. His fault comes and falls into you. His sin comes and falls into you. So we must never think ill of others. That is the right mark of true humanness. ‘Greater than all the sins, brother, is the blaming of others,’ they have said. It is not only blaming. Even in jest you must not do this to others at all. But now and then you may make a little fun. Even that fun must be fun with a meaning. It must be fun that sets the intellect right in the proper way.
A small example. There was a man of great intelligence, a great mind; though he was not a wonderfully learned man, he conducted himself well by his own shrewdness. That was Churchill. From childhood he loved war, swords and daggers. Though he had no great learning, he joined the army. His faith in himself was a deep faith. Such a man, though he had no education, became Prime Minister of Britain. More than that, he received the Nobel Prize. He had no great learning in him. He took no degree. General knowledge and common sense are essential, he said. There was a kind of discipline in him. When he wanted to give a speech, he would go into a room.