Chapter 128அதிகாரம் 128 மன்னிப்பு Forgiveness

The way to wash out sand that has fallen into the eye is to let the eye’s own tears flow.

Will the forest the fire burned bloom when the woman who set the fire tells it, ‘Bloom’?

‘We will forget, we will forget’ is ‘we will hide, we will hide’ with one sound altered.

In Tamil, ‘forget’ (mara) and ‘hide’ (marai) differ by a single vowel.

Those who said they had let it go like writing on water carry it in their heart as a scar, like writing on earth.

The hand that lets go is empty, and it fills; the hand that holds on is full, and it burns, its fullness a live coal.

Those who know how to bear go on; those who do not bear stay standing in what happened.

A fire wholly put out goes cool; a fire half put out is a fire not put out.

Where one lets go, joy plays in the mind itself; where one holds on, in that same mind, sickness.

In the hands of those who cling, harm turns to poison; in the hands of those who let go, to medicine.

The enemy has forgotten. This man has not, and in his heart he keeps his enemy safe.