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follies but it is our conscience that does the task. The inner conscience ever watches and is critical of our lapses. Surely this depends on our family traditions and our notions of what is good and bad. We many times cannot forgive ourselves. But Master does, because he knows how frail and fragile we are and he also has the love and concern for us to forgive and also help us to rectify. It is this capacity of Master to forgive that makes us revere Him.
The wrongs that we do to others are a result most of the time of a reaction to the perceived wrong they have done to us. The full understanding of the forgiving nature of Master implies that we also should forgive our friends, family and even our enemies who we feel harm us. Thus the following of this commandment enables us better to comply with the commandment 7 of the Master.
Prayer at bed time is one of the toughest to do not only for the above reasons but the environment of the prayer itself is such, that prayer is not what we are naturally inclined to do. Most of the people have bed rooms which are supposed to
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