23 May 2021
[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, Some people often mock at other's physical appearances such as facial hair, bald head, fat body, dark skin, etc. Some do it unintentionally for fun and some people do it intentionally although they are warned not to do so. It appears to be sinful if other person gets hurt by body shaming. Does it come under sin if the other person is not really hurt? Kindly enlighten us. At Your divine lotus feet, Laxmi Thrylokya]
Swāmi Replied:- You cannot distinguish whether a person is really hurt or not by your fun. The other person might have been hurt inside the mind suffering silently, which you think that the other person is not hurt at all and enjoyed the fun. Hence, even for fun sake, you should avoid such bad remarks. If the other person is really a good person and suffers in mind, your sin will be in climax and there is no need to say that the punishment given by God will be also in climax. Moreover, the real beauty is internal related to good divine qualities and not related to the external form. You shall worship the most beautiful forms of God like Rāma and Kṛṣṇa and the most frightening forms like Varāha and Narasiṃha having the faces of boar and lion respectively. All these four incarnations are of the same beautiful God Viṣṇu. God has taken all these four incarnations to teach this important spiritual concept. You must know that the story of a monkey, called Hanumān is named as Sundarakāṇḍa by Sage Vālmīki, which means the most beautiful chapter.
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