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1. Admonition to those who are accustomed to condemning The condemnation must be stopped decisively. Please repent to your confessor and ask for penance. And he will go away. It is the enemy who is annoying. The mercy of God departs from the condemner. The condemner turns out to be his own enemy (8, p. 224). 2. Judgment is a hard habit to break. Condemnation is definitely a habit that is difficult to break. Having realized your guilt, condemn yourself every time and repent before the Lord; Learn to feel sorry for those who sin and pray to God for them; God willing, you will get used to not judging (2 p. 147). 3. Instruction on the fight against the passion of condemnation and other passions Speaking about yourself, you realize that the spirit of zeal to please the Lord is alive, but that erupting acts of condemnation often destroy the entire internal structure. That the spirit of jealousy is alive - thank God! And when condemnation breaks through - alas! and ah!.. The Lord really doesn’t like this. Condemnation is born from self-satisfaction and self-satisfaction feeds. Both show that the self is alive and fat... Manage to exhaust them all. Try to do this... when you sin by condemnation and your conscience torments you, look at how you got to this point, and try not to go down that path. If this sin breaks out again, do the same thing again and always, determining for yourself to behave this way and that way, so as not to end up in gossip. Once you hold on once or twice, then it will be easy. This usually happens when you visit a taratorok. Once you get to them, you yourself become a chatterbox. But as soon as you approach them, prepare not to be influenced by their slander, and for this, revive the fear of God in yourself and the memory of the presence of the Lord, Whom you are zealous to please (4, pp. 11-12). 4. Condemnation is the fruit of conceit What are you? They condemned you and began to read instructions to a person twice your age. What does it look like? This is the fruit of conceit, but you don’t even notice it. She cried, and you became arrogant. There is senile humility, but you have youthful self-satisfaction, which clearly sees the affairs of others, understands their moral value, pronounces decisive judgment about them and prescribes medicine. The worst thing is that you didn’t even realize that this act was wrong, and talked about it as if it was a proper thing. You should cry, but you boast. We need to fix this matter. And so, when you see that person again, be sure to apologize for thinking poorly of her and even deciding to read instructions to her. Ask her to pray to the Lord to save you from arrogance and vanity. Do so and report it. This will be a useful remedy against this passion (4, p. 184). 5. Lesson on the occasion of the eruption of internal condemnation The fear of God has subsided, and with it attention has subsided; and you fell into condemnation. What you say is true: you have sinned internally. Repent quickly and beg forgiveness from the Lord. There is punishment for this, and it is internal. Condemnation is not only accomplished by word, but also by the inner movement of the heart. It already exists, as soon as the soul thinks unfavorably about someone. What to do? It broke through - beware ahead (4, p. 217). Gossip is a feminine weakness, of course, not worthy of praise. It is necessary, however, to distinguish between condemnation and condemnation. Sin begins when contempt for someone for the sake of some kind of thinness arises in the heart. You can simply convict without any sentence to the convicted person. If, at the same time, there is regret in the heart for the person who has made a mistake, a desire for his correction and a prayer for that, then there will be no sin of condemnation, but the act of love that is possible at such a meeting will be accomplished. The sin of condemnation is more in the heart than in the tongue. Speaking about the same thing can be both a sin and not a sin, judging by the feeling with which it is spoken. The tone of speech also gives the feeling. But it is better to refrain from judgment in every possible way, so as not to fall into condemnation; those. do not walk near fire and soot, so as not to get burned or blackened. Rather, one must move to condemnation and reproach of oneself (4, pp. 218–219). 7. About the fight against condemnation and self-praise Now you are starting to learn how to catch flies. Fine. I mean condemnation. It’s just not enough to say, you have to feel sorry, contrite, and with fear, as in a court case, confess your sinful thoughts to the Lord. So anyway. For this there is constant repentance, which is the main task of those who pay attention to themselves (11, p. 43). Self-praise and condemnation are two of the most common things among us. The wicked heart itself is rubbish, but everything trumpets: I am not like the others. And there are so many shades of this that it is impossible to list. Work harder to strengthen yourself in the attention of the mind, and you will see what a treasure our heart is (11, pp. 43–44). You write about N.N. Well, what kind of soul is she, that with her speeches she casts a gloomy shadow over everyone and everything. There are sinners at all degrees, and God's mercy covers them, awaiting conversion. Particulars cannot be generalized, i.e. from one case to infer the character of a person and from one person to a whole class of people. It's time to stop believing her, covering everything with a joke. And always, when speaking to condemners, keep the rule: do not believe. One elder, when someone came to him and began to speak badly about another, asked him: “How do you know about that?” He said: “One good man told this.” “Well, no, not kind,” the elder answered him. “If he were kind, he would not speak ill of another.” That's what we need too. May the Lord deliver you from seeing deeds, and not believing hearing, and your soul will be pure. But what about the sin of condemnation? After all, as soon as judgment about the actions of others is combined with contempt for them, and not with brotherly sorrow for them and with preserving the honor of their face, this will be condemnation - a great sin! Pay attention to yourself (11, p. 83)! You might be interested in: