So when you recite s

So when you recite sutras, if people ridicule you and call you superstitious, such ridicule contributes to the development of your virtuous conduct. By regarding you in that way, they enable your offenses from former lives to disappear. If they did not ridicule you, your karmic offenses could not be dissolved. Why? "The Dharma does not arise alone. In response to a state it is born." If you did not have someone ridicule you, there would be no test of your paramita of patience.