Bageshwar Dham Sarkar

How do I choose good friends?

Who is a true friend

Goswami ji writes in the Ramayan that a friend is the one who feels his friend's sorrow as his own. One who is not saddened by it is not a friend.

Je na mitra dukh hohin dukhari, tinhahi bilokat paatak bhaari. A friend is the one who takes the other friend's sorrow as his own.