forgiveness

Forgiveness 

ekaḥ kṣamāvatāṁ doṣo dvitīyo nopalabhyate | yad enaṁ kṣamayā yuktam aśaktaṁ manyate janaḥ || 76 || 

There is one only one defect in forgiving others, and no other can be thought of; that defect is that people often mistake a forgiving person to be weak. 

so'sya doṣo na mantavyaḥ kṣamā hi paramaṁ balam | kṣamā guṇo hyaśaktānāṁ śaktānāṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ tathā || 77 || 

That defect, however, should not be taken into consideration, for forgiveness is nevertheless a great force. Forgiveness is a virtue of the weak, and an ornament of the strong. 

kṣamā vaśīkṛtir loke kṣamayā kiṁ na sādhyate | śānti khaḍga kare yasya kiṁ kariṣyati durjanaḥ || 78 || 

Forgiveness subdues everyone in this world, what is there that cannot be achieved through forgiveness? What can the wicked do to one who carries the sword of peace. 

hiṁsā balam asādhūnāṁ rājñāṁ daṇḍavidhir balam | śuśrūṣā tu balaṁ strīṇāṁ kṣamā guṇavatāṁ balam || 79 || 

The strength of the malicious is in their violence, the strength of the legal system is in punishment, the strength of women is in their ability to care for others; and strength of the virtuous in in forgiveness. 

eko dharmaḥ paraṁ śreyaḥ kṣamaikā śāntir uttamā | vidyaikā paramā dṛṣṭir ahiṁsaikā sukhāvahā || 80 || 

Righteousness (Dharma) is the single highest good; and forgiveness is the one supreme contributor to peace; knowledge is giver of supreme contentment; and only non-violence produces great happiness. 

dvāvimau puruṣau rājan svargasyopari tiṣṭhataḥ | prabhuśca kṣamayā yukto daridraśca pradānavān || 81 || 

These two, O king, live (as it were) in a region higher than heaven itself, viz., a powerful person endowed with forgiveness, and poor person that is generous. 

nātaḥ śrīmattaraṁ kiñcid anyat pathyatamaṁ matam | prabha viṣṇor yathā tāta kṣamā sarvatra sarvadā || 82 || 

O sire, there is nothing more conducive of happiness and nothing more proper for a person of power and energy as forgiveness in every place and at all times. 

kṣamed aśaktaḥ sarvasya śaktimān dharma kāraṇāt | arthānarthau samau yasya tasya nityaṁ kṣamā hitā || 83 || 

One who is weak should forgive under all circumstances. One who is powerful should show forgiveness from motives of virtue; and one to whom the success or failure of aspirations is the same, is naturally forgiving.