Forgiveness

Gajasukumar, younger brother of Krishna Vasudeva, very beautiful in body, renounced the worldly life taking initiation from Bhagawan Neminath at young age of only twelve and was engrossed in deep meditation sitting in a crematorium; thereby his character full of wonderful forgiveness, attained very high spiritual state of the self. I'll tell you that story. Gajasukumar was betrothed to a very beautiful daughter of a Brahmin named Somal but before marriage Gajasukumar renounced the worldly life. So Somal got fiercely angry and wild as his daughter missed a beautiful boy who would be her husband and he went in search of Gajasukumar and searched out from where that great monk Gajasukumar was sitting in performance of Kayotsarga, with pure heart and steadfast mind in a crematorium; prepared a furnace of wet sticky earth on the head of Gajasukumar and putting burning charcoal in it and added other firewood and so there was great heat. Gajasukumar's young tender body began to burn and seeing this, Somal went away from there. You can imagine what a terrible pain Gajasukumar might have been suffering by burns. But he kept equanimity of mind and did not allow any anger to disturb his mental peace. On the contrary making his soul elastic he said to himself that had he accepted Somal's daughter as his wife in marriage, Somal might have given him a rich turban which would have been tattered by long use and resulted in worldly miseries but instead he gave him a turban of burning fire by which he could be released from his soul's attachment to his body and so helped him to obtain quick liberation. As a result of this unshakable extreme forgiveness, Gajasukumar, bearing killing pain of burns with peaceful mind, became all seeing and all knowing, got infinite happiness of life. What an incomparable forgiveness and how excellent its result! Philosophers have rightly said that if one's soul proceeds completely in its own nature of eternal peace and bliss, it realizes liberation there and then. The famous forgiveness of Gajasukumar gives us an absolutely correct advice to follow it and realize our self quickly.