So never let in your consciousness come negative thoughts about anyone. Never complain. If then, complain only to yourself.

There is one beautiful song. In the song one bhakta (a person devoted to God) says: “Lord, I want to offer you one particular flower. But that flower I could not find anywhere. I was searching shore to shore, door to door. Through the mountains and forests, through the gardens and parks. I couldn’t find that flower which I want to give you. Lord, I come with empty hands to you now. What a shame. I couldn’t find that flower which I want to give you. Why I couldn’t find? Perhaps it was my mistake that I couldn’t search properly.” And therefore, if then, blame yourself. If something negative happens, it happens because you were there. You are there. You are receiving, you are manifesting.

One saint says in one beautiful poem: “I went to see negative things, but I could not find anywhere. Then I searched my heart and I found that no one is bad than me.”
It is you first who will project in you the negative, and then you will tell it is the negative. If here in this pocket there is something very negative, now first I must realize it is the negative, and then I will tell you it’s bad, it’s not good. So it means first bad or negative enters into my consciousness, that polluted my consciousness, and that poisons first my chitta vrittis (thoughts), and changed first my heart in negative way, then I create this thought, vrittis, and I say now to you, it’s negative.

Therefore, the Rishis (ancient saints) said, gave the examples: “Mind is a monkey, and monkeys should control itself.” They close the mouth – “don’t speak negative”; they close the ears – “don’t listen negative”; they close the eyes – “don’t see the negative”. Why? For the sake of self-protection. Only you can protect yourself. Control your indriyas - control you senses.