Passage 11

On the Gītā: 13.7

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In plain words

“The fourth is ‘kṣamā’. It is also called ‘kṣānti’, and also ‘sahana’. That is: whatever wrongs, injuries and betrayals others may have done to one, even if they go on hating one, to think of them all as scenes in a dream, to regard them as mirages, and to forget them. But that forbearance is not putting up with things out of inability, for want of strength, or because there is no other way. Along with Śānti in the heart, kṣānti must come outwardly as well,” He said. How true! To stay patient for the praise of people outside, or because one lacks, or has too little of, the strength of body, wealth and people behind one, or because one thinks that nothing one does will avail — that cannot be kṣānti. This too is as important as Ahiṃsā.

Sri Satchitananda Sai