Blood stains cannot be removed by more blood, resentment cannot be removed by more resentment, resentment can be removed only be forgetting it. Though his feet leave their imprints in my footsteps and his hands carry my garment, if his mind is disturbed by greed, he is far from me. There is no way to improve. The rose is a rose, the marigold is a marigold. The effort to mak e a marigold a rose is doomed to fail.
T here is helplessness, misery, failure.
The ego feels hurt and wounded. This is the first th ing. A deep total acceptance of things as they are. Then life enters into a different dimension. The dimension of joy, celebration, because then the whole energy is available to dance, to sing, to be.