PREJUDICE

Being judicious is not easy. Even the most honest people find it difficult to be so. Why? Because of the vice of prejudice.
Prejudice means preconceived opinion, influenced by repeated experiences and hearing from others. A person, who eats only a particular kind of food for long time or since birth, will have prejudice against other kinds of food, or for that matter against everything different than what he or she has experienced, and more so against the civilization which he hasn’t experienced.
Prejudice is very deeply rooted….

Prejudice can be violent…. without even giving any feeling of remorse or guilt. Rather, one might justify, “we are benefitting the other aborigine civilization by wiping out its people and creating abetter kind of civilization.” Therefore, it is cruel to be prejudiced without having an understanding of the civilization of others.
In the Mahabharata, Jarasandha didn’t deem fit that the hundreds of kings whom he had imprisoned had any right to live. He was offering them as a sacrifice. It was a murderous plan, fortunately foiled by Lord Krishna.
Prejudice can be offensive….

In certain parts of the world some religious people believe women to be soulless, and hence they find nothing wrong in exploiting them. 

Some consider the soul inside a physically challenged person to be incomplete; hence they want to make it completely incomplete by killing the person.
 If you have a different skin color than some other people, then you do not deserve to live. White men terminated millions of native  Americans because of this prejudice.

Being Judicious

Therefore, being judicious means understanding the science of the soul as presented reasonably and logically in the Bhagavad Gita. We can read, “One, who is truly knowledgable, understands the inner substance in different bodies, to be the same in nature. He thus sees with equal vision, a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste]. Only such a person can judiciously judge. Such a person is beyond prejudice, hence he can figure out things as they are rather than as he is forced observe.
Thus, the battle of Kuruksetra was a war between the judicious Pandavas and the prejudiced Kauravas. Sanjay, who was free from the conditional qualities of bias and bigotry, had the courage and guts to tell his master Dhrithrasthra  that there was no hope for his sons. He proved himself right at the end of the 18th day of the battle.
Are we ready to take the journey from being prejudiced to  judicious?