What is described at Kshamavani is mutual and simultaneous: both parties ask, both grant, and neither is required to specify what for. The formula, micchami dukkadam, asks that the wrong be made fruitless rather than that it be excused, which is a slightly different act — it addresses the karmic consequence rather than the relationship. People report the specific relief of an account closing. The mechanism's strength is that it is unconditional, annual and universal, so grievances do not accumulate across years and nobody has to be the one to break first. Its obvious weakness, which Jains raise themselves, is that a fixed-date general amnesty can substitute for the harder particular reckoning — the message goes to the whole address book, the estranged relative included, and nothing is said about what happened. The tradition's answer is that the practice is aimed at the state of the person asking, and that a person who asks insincerely has gained nothing, which is consistent with everything else in the system and does not entirely dispose of the objection.