Just because we are right does not mean that we have the right to tell everyone that we are right. Sometimes people who are right about certain things can go about expressing their opinion or even their expertise in a way that puts other people off. We may be right, but sometimes that alone does not mean that we have earned the right to correct others. It is often not just by our expertise, but by our courteous behavior and by our respectful attitude that we earn the right to correct others.

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17.15 Austerity of speech consists in speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.