What is that all-encompassing virtue we must strive to cultivate?
The quality of Kshama (forbearance) is the most essential for one and all. Forbearance is truth, forbearance is righteousness, forbearance is non-violence, forbearance is the teaching of the Vedas, forbearance confers happiness and heavenly bliss.
Forgive those who have harmed you and criticised
you. Have faith that whatever happens is for your own good. If someone hurls
abuses on you, do not retaliate. Enquire within yourself whether he has
criticised the body or the atma. If he has criticised the body, indirectly he has
done you a favour because the body is nothing but a heap of flesh, blood, bones
and faecal matter.
On the other
hand, if he has criticised the Atma, it amounts to criticising his own self
because the same atma exists in both of you. One should cultivate this kind of
forgiveness and broad-mindedness.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse - 16.7.2000)
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