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becoming flawless. No one wants to remain flawed. Therefore, when one comes to know about one's flaws he tries to overcome them. A person embraces a flaw only till such time that he does not consider it a flaw and considers it as beneficial for him. Like
this, in the field of spiritual practice looking at one's own flaws · is considered very important. In the scriptural language it known as ‘āloyaņā or ālocanā'. Every one knows about the importance of āloyaņa for a spiritual aspirant.
Where there is no darkness, there is light. Similarly, where there is no animosity, there is friendship and where there is absence of animosity and presence of friendship, the giving and receiving of forgiveness is naturally available.
Actually, in the abovementioned aphorism, the utmost form of spiritual practice and its supreme accomplishment have been mentioned. Forgiveness, generosity, begging for forgiveness, humility, giving up enmities, equanimity and love indicate the quality of friendship in a person. The development of these qualities can change one from a bad person to a good one and eventually makes him the supreme soul or God.
Friendship can be there only where there is no animosity, where there is love, willingness to cooperate and affection. Affection means considering and treating all living beings as oneself. Therefore, in friendship there is an element of equality. Where there is a desire to get sensory enjoyment from some one, there is enjoyment there, but there is no friendship. Friendship can be there only where one is ready to selflessly and happily sacrifice one's own pleasures for making a friend happy.
Friendship represents affection. Therefore, “Mitti me savvabhūesu' means affection for all the living beings. Where there is affection there no feeling of own and other, everyone is our own. In universal affection no living being is alien or strange. Therefore, there is a feeling of helping and cooperating with everyone. Actually active cooperation itself is service. In service, there is an active feeling of
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