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sufferings one gets is the result of one's own past paapa karmas, no one else is responsible for it. Whoever seems responsible are just instrumental, it's not their fault. Rather they are helping us to eradicate/clean our paapa. But, due to lack of this understanding one gets angry with the others who are just instrumental for one's pains which lead to binding of new paapa karmas, which in future becomes the cause of one's pains. In this way only we have been bearing pains and agony since infinite time and have generated new pains and are still doing the same at present. So, the only way to be free from such infinite pains is to be obliged by those who are instrumental cause of our pains because they are instrumental in eradicating/cleaning our paapa karmas. We shall not contemplate them responsible for our pains at all. Rather our past sins meaning thereby our past evil deeds alone are the cause of our present pains. So, at the time of pains and agony we must rather ponder that- Oh! I did commit such an evil deed in past! Shame on me! Shame on me!! Micchaami dukkadam! (Let my evil deeds become fruitless, null and void!) Micchaami dukkadam! (This is pratrikramana i.e. introspection of one's own sinful propensities and come out of it i.e. to repent for sins i.e. to wash the blemishes of the Soul) and we must solemnly resolve/determine that we will never repeat such sins in future! We will
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