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There
are two categories for the variations
of nÓOy
jai. In the first example, you
suffer from being ignored or slighted.
When you forget your wife’s birthday,
she will feel nÓOy
jai. You are left off the list
for the annual office party, and when
you discover that you are the only one
not invited, then you will feel nÓOy
jai or nÓOy
òk nÓOy jai. In
this first category, you are reacting,
or those around you are reacting, to the
small slights that come along in ordinary
life. You feel bad about being slighted.
This is a normal emotion.
In
the second category, there are people
whose personality makes them far more
likely to feel touchy or belittled or
ignored. There are those individuals who
are sensitive to any hint of disapproval,
limitation, restriction or criticism,
for a lifetime. In this case, nÓOy
jai is an adjective rather than
a verb. Small things cause them anguish
and they may be wounded by a disapproving
glance as well as by a thoughtless word.
Criticism is something that is not tolerated
by a person with a “touchy heart.”
These are the truly touchy-hearted amongst
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