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intensity of anger becomes so excessive that poor ‘kshama' is stunned and scared beyond words. As a result, she is unable to gather enough courage to show her face again after days, months, years or even life times. In that much time, wealth may come and go several times. The most surprising thing is that by resorting to whatever means available, you have freed the money that was deposited with someone and now that you have cash in hand, you are faced with the dilemma of where to invest it. If your desire was to invest, then wasn't it already employed somewhere? Why did you bother to free it? So, “kshama' is more important than wealth. Even if you are likely to incur heavy losses, it cannot become the cause of either anger or enmity.
An important fact which has to be borne in mind is that there are no separate markets for incurring a profit or a loss. There is no concept like profit is incurred in the office or the shop and a loss is incurred at home. Where it is possible to incur a profit, it is equally possible to incur a loss. In the same manner, there are no different markets for forgiveness or anger. The occasion, where one can get angry can also be of one where one can be forgiving.
The same behaviour in others, which infuriates us, has brought forth forgiveness in the minds of great souls of yore.
When someone abused us, insulted us, blamed us wrongly, spoke bitter words to us, censured us, broke our valuable things, slapped us, caused us to incur a loss, we termed them as actions that caused us anger. However, nature is not prepared to consider even one of
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