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to the body and the mind, to the soul. It is as if it is conveying to the soul, “You have been abused, insulted or slapped by someone so that you can nurture the quality of forgiveness in you. Why don't you think that without the abuser, it is difficult to foster forgiveness? Therefore, please understand that the abuse, the slap are means to achieve and strengthen forgiveness and not to display anger.”
To train or initiate one in Math, an easy sum like “two plus two equals four” is taught, followed by tougher ones gradually. Over time, one is given more and more complex, mind-wrecking ones which are almost impossible to solve.
Similarly, a soul, which has learnt to react with forgiveness on being slapped, is given further advanced lessons by presenting him with situations, where his limbs are likely to be broken. For a soul, which has not forsaken ‘kshama' even on such dire an occasion, to progress to greater heights, an additional life-taking situation is created. One should also think in a similar fashion about an incurred loss which may increase sequentially. Therefore nature declares that be it a loss of crores of rupees or a fatal blow, these are all a cause for pardon and not rage. For this reason, nature does not spare a soul, which gets enraged in such situations, from getting punished. We have to decide what we desire from nature, a punishment or a felicitation.
Another way of thinking, so as to cultivate kshama, is that abuses, insults or financial losses do not affect our blood pressure or sugar levels but anger which is vented on such occasions is surely an invitation to hypertension.
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