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indignant due to annoyance caused to them by one or many persons are hereby sincerely encouraged, with an extremely compassionate heart, to do the experiment of seeing Swa-karma-dosha. Make an honest, adequate effort to explain to your soul that “No person is evil, only one's karmas are evil”, based upon a course of reasoning which is put forth in this book. An astounding mental phenomenon will be experienced by you. Peace of mind, which has been eluding you despite using potent medicines, will be easily achieved by you, without the support of medicines.
The Jain friend understood this reality very well, therefore, he started sprinkling water on the youth distressed by the harassment caused by his stepmother, "Friend, Your mother passed away in your childhood, your father remarried, the new mother was not loving and was filled with hatred for you, and your father never took your side. Would all this have happened if your karmas were not demeritorious?” In this way, by explaining in multiple ways, he pacified the fire of anger that the youth harboured in his mind for his stepmother. The moment the youth accepted the fact that all his woes were the result of his own previous karmas, his grudge towards his stepmother disappeared. He then readied himself to fight all those sinful previous karmas.
The friend also advised him with a favourable solution - 'tapa'. He told him to take upon himself the austerity of ‘attham' to destroy his previously accumulated bad
Swa-karma-dosha = fault of one's own karmas
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