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For spiritual progress kshama (forbearance) is the real basis or foundation.
Great people and countries have lost their glory, prestige, and reputation
because of the disappearance of Kshama. Without patience and the capacity for
forbearance, one becomes spiritually weak. Such weakness leads to bad feelings,
undesirable thoughts, and unbecoming actions. This virtue is best cultivated
under adverse circumstances, and one must therefore gladly welcome troubles
instead of regarding them as unwelcome. Thus times of distress, and an
environment of sorrow and misery offer the ideal opportunity for the
development of Kshama. However, because of mental weakness and ignorance, we
shun painful experiences and distress. You should not be weak; be brave and
welcome troubles. Let them come, more the merrier. Only with such a courageous
attitude, you would be able to bring out the kshama hidden within you. - Divine
Discourse, 25-May-2000.
The right angle to approach a difficult problem is the “try-angle”.-BABA.
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Study of books alone will not enhance your capability; they will merely provide
you with superficial or bookish knowledge. This obviously is not enough. Real
capability and strength come by tapping the Inner Power latent in you. All that
is outside is artificial. Real truth and power are both ins...ide, in your
heart. It is the heart that must be strengthened, but, unaware of this fact,
people become furiously active in the external world, only to get lost there.
There are many types of food catering to the needs of the gross body but what
about food for the heart? That food can be obtained only when you turn your
head toward God. You must understand the subtle linkages here – food, head, and
God. Thus, along with the acquisition of worldly knowledge, you must also give
importance to culture and refinement.
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For acquiring selfless love, the quality of kshama or forbearance is a vital
necessity. (kshama is a word rich in meaning. Besides forbearance, it also
implies extreme patience and an enormous capacity to forget as also forgive).
Every individual must cultivate this noble quality. Kshama is not a...chieved
by reading books or learnt from an instructor. Nor can it be received as a gift
from someone else. This prime virtue of kshama can be acquired solely by
self-effort, by facing squarely diverse problems and difficulties of various
sorts, by going through anxieties and suffering as well as sorrow. In the
absence of kshama, man becomes susceptible to all kinds of evil tendencies.
Hatred and jealousy easily take root in a person lacking this virtue. Divinity
is merely the combined manifestation of prema (love) and kshama. - Divine
Discourse, 25-May-2000.
Forbearance (Kshama) is the grandest and noblest of all virtues.-BABA
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