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1. How many mistakes are made in our life?

Who can enumerate how many are there.

Who counts all and answers then,

What for we are making them?

2. Why people can’t live right and fine,

Without big mistakes in life.

One grave and thoughtless step

Can frustrate our lifelong quest.

3. Which kind is better? Many small,

Or one major fault? Where are the toils?

But people can notice it at once,

And correct the misdeed in time

4. It is too painful to look at it,

How people are suffering by one hit.

Who can help them right,

For living an unerring life.

5. We can live fine, without some mistake?

Perhaps there is a man who did not make.

But he is holy may be, – sage,

Who knows all life-laws. Good that!

6. Mis-spent life is a fatal mistake.

How to correct it, when life comes to end?

What will you say there, – in the sky,

What for you lived with error of mind?

7. The sky can all forgive, but one,

Remember always, which was done

Against the sky’s will, it is a great sin —

To murder souls with sacred feelings.

8. Man must be gardener for all,

Best knowing, how flowers must be grown.

Man’s soul must be a flower garden,

Then never would mis-step have risen.

9. Can soulless by chance find himself very high?

Is it probable? – Without soul one can’t fly!

Many grave mistakes pull them down,

It’s hard to fly with mind unsound.

10. Can we see them, who rise in feelings?

Yes! They are shining stars. Look this!

Who there have been rising high?

The saints, who unerring love hold in mind.