Yes please forgive me you are right and I am a hyprocrite because I have held back many times due to stress about people around me etc.
But I have come to a point where I can do bhagti in the midst of people with my eyes open (at work etc).
Perhaps this could be a beginning point for people. I know it's difficult to ignore peoples vibes etc, but we really are drops in an ocean, we're all gods children, god in different forms, we must all accept this fact and move forward or we'll never get over slander/ never stop judging others as bad etc when its really god teaching us a lesson/ wiping away our karma (for which we ourselves are responsible aand noone else). God gives us pain for a reason, perhaps we are being set a test with these people around us to distract us. We must ignore and continue, we all have the same aim whether it';s realised or not- union with god. You're just ready to pursue it and not slander others, but perhaps facing slander is the only way to reach your aim as it has been for so many bhagats. If you can't pass through the forest you'll never get where you want to be, people are never going to stop slandering, so what will you/we choose?
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The world is diverse and people appear to go to the Gurdwara for different reasons. Some to pray, some because family has made them, some for social element, some for spiritual. Some because they are illegal immigrants who have no place to sleep, some because they are troubled etc. etc.
No one is perfect and we are all victim to the vikaars inside of us. I still think I am less than an infant spiritually, so it doesn't surprise me that I sometimes have these silly battles to fight. Plus people will be people and at this moment in time I generally like to try and keep my faith a very personal, private matter as much as I can I guess.
But I have witnessed people mock other people doing paat/bhagti in the Gurdwara which is quite shocking when you think about it - this is stuff like nodding towards and smirking at what people are doing whilst they are trying to concentrate. People should know better - but they don't....that;s humans for you I guess?
ਐਸੇ ਝੂਠਿ ਮੁਠੇ ਸੰਸਾਰਾ ॥ ਨਿੰਦਕੁ ਨਿੰਦੈ ਮੁਝੈ ਪਿਆਰਾ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ ਜਿਸੁ ਨਿੰਦਹਿ ਸੋਈ ਬਿਧਿ ਜਾਣੈ ॥ ਗੁਰ ਕੈ ਸਬਦੇ ਦਰਿ ਨੀਸਾਣੈ ॥: Aise jhooth muthe sansaaraa. Nindak nindai mujhai piaaraa. Jis nindahi soee bidhi jaanai. Gur kai Sabade dar neesaanai: Such is the falsehood (worthless activities, corrupt thinking, ਝੂਠੇ ਵਿਚਾਰ, etc.) that's plundering the worldly people (of their spiritual life - ਆਤਮਕ ਜੀਵਨ ਅਜੇਹੇ ਲੁਟਾ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ ਕਿ ਇਹਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਸਮਝ ਹੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਪੈਂਦੀ). The slanderer slanders me, but even so, I love him (because, by doing so, he takes my sins upon himself). ||1||Pause|| He alone knows the Way, who has been slandered. Through the Shabad, he is approved at the God's Doors (he keeps the Lord's Name in his heart - ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਦੇ ਨਾਮ ਨੂੰ ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਹਿਰਦੇ ਵਿਚ ਵਸਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ) (sggs 1330).