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Kshamapana comparatively simple. When a mistake was made, people begged pardon, but life today is complex. Man is restless and he makes the world around him restless. Man lives as if he is in a prison cell. Knowingly or unknowingly, we become victims of anger, pride, illusion and greed. These vices express themselves through our body, speech and mind.
Outwardly we are good, but inwardly? Only God knows. Arrogance is a great vice. Illusion says, "This is mine, that is yours." Where there is anger, there is annoyance.
Where there is pride, there is insult.
What we think to be non-existent, is found to be existent. What we think to be existent, is found to be non-existent. Lust pervades everywhere. The festival of forgiveness is the festival of universal love; the festival, that promises fearlessness to the sentients of the three worlds. Let us proclaim from the depths of a generous heart and in a voice touched with tenderness :
“Love all sentients of the universe ! Cherish all good intentions of the Heart ! Come, forgive and ask forgiveness ! The world is full of vices, full of enmity. Let us sow the seeds of friendship.
Then only the world will be worth living in."
O! Brother mine ! Why is there a collar round your neck ? Are you a wood-cutter for bhavas (births) ? Are you to roam with a bundle of sticks of passions (Kashayas) ? Why can't you speak in a free voice with a frank heart :
“Michchhami dukkadam ! May ny evil deeds be fruitless !"
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