How does Baba reconcile his seemingly contradictory views on slanderers, calling them both benefactors and comparing them to pigs eating filth?

Baba presents a nuanced, multi-faceted perspective on slanderers. In Chapter 19, he initially and paradoxically praises slanderers as "benefactors" and "highly venerable," because by pointing out faults, they make the slandered person alert and help them avert future calamities. However, for the slanderer themselves, the act is spiritually degrading. Baba illustrates this by later pointing to a sow eating filth, comparing its actions to the slanderer's tongue. The lesson from Chapter 19 is twofold: for the person being slandered, criticism can be a gift for self-improvement. But for the person doing the slandering, it is a self-destructive act that pollutes their own mind and wastes their human birth, making them a "self-destroyer."