ACCOMODATING ONE’S SHORTCOMINGS

achieve any substantial work. Just as it is true in commercial and political spheres, so is it true of religious work. But irrespective of whichever field the work is going on in, people will be able to work together only if they are patient and tender-hearted in their outlook. They will have to bear with one another, putting ill-feeling behind them, and not become alienated towards one another over petty issues. It is good to be an idealist, but if someone eternally seeks the ideal in people, he is bound to be disappointed. The only way to be able to work with others, then, is to overlook the fact that they do not match up to our ideal standard, and to extend moral support to those who seem the most deficient. o Converting revenge into forgiveness and anger into equanimity is the highest form of spirituality.