In plain words
This way of making allowances is very much needed by us.
A small example: in your class there are only children. A student comes and asks you for some book to read. You give it. Then he says he needs something more. In this way, two or three times, you give him your things. You help him in so many ways. When you ask that same person for something you need and he will not give it, at once you get angry. ‘What! I did all that for him: I gave him books, I gave him a pen, I helped him so much. Can he not do me one small favour today?’ Thinking so, over a matter like this you nurse hatred and build up hostility against each other. At just such a moment children must practise patience. ‘I gave; he did not give. Poor fellow, it may be he did not want to’: this is the right age to tell yourself so and make allowances. At this age you must build up the strength to make allowances well.
You know the story of Tukārām well. Tukārām had just one acre of land, poor man! He was poor, and a supreme devotee. Keeping God ever in mind, he passed his time and did his work. One day he planted sugar-cane in that field. The cane ripened. That day he took his cart, cut the whole crop of cane, loaded it on the cart and was coming home. Knowing his nature, all the little children: ‘Grandpa! One for me, Grandpa! One for me,’ they all came asking. His heart was filled with Prema. His was a very gentle mind. His nature was to see that God dwells in everyone. ‘When God comes in this form and asks, how could I not give! Shame! Shame!’ he said to himself. So he went on handing a stick of cane to every child who asked. By the time he got home a single stick of cane was left, poor man! But Tukārām's wife was a real shrew.