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dealings despite not having committed any mistake or crime, definitely achieves peace in life. He does not remain a mere husband (master), he becomes the master of everybody's heart and develops a capability of becoming the master of the Universe in future.
To endure, as a result of someone's mischievous behaviour and yet to see one's self as the wrong-doer is very difficult, on account of following three reasons. Since infinite times, we have in us (1) a tendency to see other's faults, sins, crimes with the exception of our own, (2) a dislike or aversion for such souls and (3) an intense arrogance as the root cause of such behaviour. In such a case, forbearance is difficult but not impossible.
Anger may have resided within us since an infinite passage of time though it is not one of our inherent qualities. It is an aberration, which is not intrinsic to our nature. It belongs elsewhere. It is entrenched within us but is not the owner of our soul. It is an invader which can be driven away. We are competent to expel it from within and completely uproot it from our system.
Chanakya had vowed to totally annihilate the Nand dynasty. Would a firmer vow than Chanakya's, that is to uproot one's anger, be impossible for us to take?
Anger is synonymous to a quarrelsome wife who has alienated us from our dear mother, ‘Kshama'. The lap of ‘Kshama’ lends us warmth. It is lifegiving. It gives us peace and happiness. It is capable of converting our misfortunes into our wealth, our calamities to a feast, our grief into a
Kshama = forgiveness
| SR No. | 007714 |
| Book Title | Jailer |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Abhayshekharsuri, Sujata P Kapadia |
| Publisher | Harshadray Private Limited |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 190 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 15 MB |