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encouraged. Patients can also try to learn as much as possible from their current situation, including their apparent failures.
Medical Studies on Acceptance as a Coping Skill Acceptance, from a nonreligious perspective, has been studied in pain research. Although acceptance isn't unique to Hinduism, it's certainly central to the religion, and includes at least two aspects. Hindu traditions view acceptance as a logical attitude towards what one's life presents, including pain and suffering, because all is seen as the just working of karma. The practice of acceptance is also a means to a greater end, detachment. The process of accepting one's life lessens one's desire for things to be different than they are. As desires fall away, detachment is achieved. Related to pain, both painful and pain-free states would be accepted equally. Detachment from this world, to be focused on God, is a primary goal in Hinduism.
XIII. The spirit of tolerance
It may be noted that the comprehensive tolerance of Hinduism is exemplified remarkably in such instances as the following. In the temple of *Dharmasthala in Karnataka the chief personage is a Jain - he is regarded as a hereditary oracle whose arbitration is sought by members of all Hindu and even Muslim communities. The temple itself has the Sivalinga as well as the Salagrama, or symbol of Vishnu, the officiating priest being a Vaisnavite. In
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