What is that all-encompassing virtue we must strive to cultivate? Bhagawan lovingly guides us today.

The quality of Kshama (forbearance) is the most essential for one and all. Forbearance is truth, forbearance is righteousness, forbearance is non-violence, forbearance is the teaching of the Vedas, forbearance confers happiness and heavenly bliss. Forgive those who have harmed you and criticised you. Have faith that whatever happens is for your own good. If someone hurls abuses on you, do not retaliate. Enquire within yourself whether he has criticised the body or the atma. If he has criticised the body, indirectly he has done you a favour because the body is nothing but a heap of flesh, blood, bones and faecal matter. On the other hand, if he has criticised the Atma, it amounts to criticising his own self because the same atma exists in both of you. One should cultivate this kind of forgiveness and broad-mindedness.