The great forgiveness

• Rigorous austerity goes with forgiveness ;
  It turns the knave into a saint ;
  It absolves the sins binding the soul ;
  Liberates it from the worldly imbroglios. (1)
  

• Forgiveness makes the coward brave ;
  One who forgives has no enemy -
  So declare the persons with a resolute mind
  Forgiveness is virtue ; forgiveness bravery (2)
  

• Lord is with him who forgives the wrong ;
  His spotless fame lives after his death.
  So sings sankara, the poet
  Who eulogises Him who forgives (3)
  

• Forgiveness is the ensign of the brave,
  It is the shield of a man ;
  The forgiver enjoys happiness
  In all the three phases of time,
  The past, present and the future. (4)
  

• World is the heaven, the garden of the Lord ;
  Forgiveness, the delicate flower, emanates the fragrance,
  The fragrance of purity,
  Destroys the odour - the odour
  Of meanness, of revenge
  From the garden of the Lord (5)
  

• The great souls pardon the wrongs,
  Pardon is the soul of the sage ;
  The unique sentiments dwell in the heart,
  Of the person who forgives openly (6)
  

• He enjoys no fame
  Who does not know to pardon the wrongs,
  Done to him by the knave ;
  The world eulogises him, who pardons generously
  The mean and the rogue (7)
  

• pardon is the embellishment of a sage,
  Absolves all flaws of the human beings.
  A unique shield, the brave wear it
  To repell the onslaught, of the spiritual foes (8)
  

• Pardon is divine, a potent amulet ,
  Always protects who wears it with faith.
  The mean, the rogue can never pierce it,
  It is divinely strong, Sankara declares. (9)
  

• Pardon is the nature of the great
  The sages adore it, the people esteem it ;
  Sankara, the poet says - the Lord accepts
  When one pardons the rogue - the doer of the wrong (10)
  

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