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     Aek Nath

There was a Saint named Aek Nath. He had a vow of bathing un the river Ganges daily. His ideology of forgiveness and renunciation was highly talked of in the city. One Pathan( Normally those belonging to Afghanistan are called Pathan) also used to live in that city. Once he thought to test the saint. His house was on that very road by which the saint used to go for bathing in the Ganga (The famous river in India). The next day when saint Aek nath was returning from after having a bath in the Ganga, the pathan, chewing a betel leaf, spat down from above his roof top. Its shower fell on the body of Aek Nath also; hence the saint went back to have a bath in Ganga again. This process was repeated a hundred times on that one day. Ultimately when the saint was returning after his one hundred and one times bath, the Pathan came down from his house top and falling down at his feet started weeping and begging pardon for his mischief and ill doing. The saint said, “I am grateful to you for your good deed, because daily I used to bathe in Ganga only once, but today I am lucky to bathe a hundred and one times due to you. Great men have great thoughts. They never give up their celestial virtues. Saint Aek Nath who belonged to this noble category, took this ill-deed of pathan as a virtuous deed and pardoned him. On this earth there no other greater virtue than forgiveness. One who is gifted with the virtue of forgiveness is crowned with all other virtues.

Moral Lesson:- Forgiveness is pertinent in all the three worlds; it helps to sail across the ocean of birth and death; it enables us to be endowed with the three jewels i.e., Right Belief, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct and safeguards us from a miserable plight.

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