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Answer: A soul feels anger not only on incurring a loss, but even at the mere thought of incurring a loss. It is not prepared to let go. Therefore it is natural for the mind not to believe that feeling anger is foolish and unworthy of indulgence. However, just because of that, it does not cease to be unwise.
A traveller had forgotten to put on his footwear. While walking on the road, his foot struck against a rock breaking a toe-nail. He was in complete agony but instead of thinking of the pain, he was relieved that he was not wearing any footwear otherwise the toe-strap of his sandal would have broken. Isn't this foolishness?
Of course, it is because at the end, the foot is a part of one's own body whereas the sandal is only a foreign thing.
Same is true of the present situation. Wealth and life are both foreign to the soul, and are going to be alienated from it. Kshama, on the other hand, is the soul itself which has the countenance of an attractive heavenly nymph. There is no wisdom in corrupting oneself by trying to stop the damage to a foreign thing. In other words, risking a loss of ‘Kshamapari's' tenderness and adopting savagery of the monster of anger is not a sign of a good judgement.
This reality is well represented by a famous saying which is constituted in three sentences –
“If wealth is lost, nothing is lost If health is lost, something is lost If character is lost, everything is lost.”
Kshama = forgiveness Kshamapari = nymph of forgiveness
